Kaúchēsis — G2746

Definition

feminine noun

boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense

Usually translated as

boasting, rejoicing, whereof I may glory, glorying

Origin

from G2744

• kaucháomai (G2744)

Occurrences

Kaúchēsis occurs 12 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Romans (2), 1 Corinthians (1), 2 Corinthians (7), 1 Thessalonians (1), James (1)

• Romans 3:27 — Where is boasting (καύχησις) then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
• Romans 15:17 — I have therefore whereof I may glory (καύχησιν) through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
• 1 Corinthians 15:31 — I protest by your rejoicing (καύχησιν) which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
• 2 Corinthians 1:12 — For our rejoicing (καύχησις) is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• 2 Corinthians 7:4 — Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying (καύχησις) of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
• 2 Corinthians 7:14 — For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting (καύχησις), which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
• 2 Corinthians 8:24 — Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting (καυχήσεως) on your behalf.
• 2 Corinthians 9:4 — Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting (καυχήσεως).
• 2 Corinthians 11:10 — As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting (καύχησις) in the regions of Achaia.
• 2 Corinthians 11:17 — That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting (καυχήσεως).
• 1 Thessalonians 2:19 — For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing (καυχήσεως)? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
• James 4:16 — But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing (καύχησις) is evil.