noun · feminine
kauchēsias
Strong’sG2746
the act of boasting, exultation
stem kauchēsi-11 times in the New Testamentin 5 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
† καύχησις, -εως, ἡ
(< καυχάομαι), [in LXX for תִּפְאֶרֶה (I Ch 29:13, Ez 16:12, al);]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2746 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkow'-khay-sis
boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense
Fromfrom G2744;
King Jamesboasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
boasting, NT+4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | kauchēsias6×καύχησις | kauchēsiais |
| object accusative | kauchēsian2×καύχησιν | kauchēsiain |
| direct address vocative | kauchēsiar | kauchēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kauchēsiau3×καυχήσεως | kauchēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | kauchēsia | kauchēsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
kauchēsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
11 occurrences, every one of them listed
kauchēsias“boasting”subjectnominative singular6×
Romans 3:27Pou oun tas kauchēsias? ekkleiita. dia poiou nomou? teiu ergeiu? …Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle …
2 Corinthians 1:12Tas gar kauchēsias nu houtas atō, tem marturiem tau …For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have …
2 Corinthians 7:4… mi parrēsias pros vin, pollas mi kauchēsias huper vu; plēromē ta paraklēsia, huperperisseuomō …… confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with …
2 Corinthians 7:14… alētheia lalana vi, houtōs kai tas kauchēsias nu tas epi Titou alētheias genita.… to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be …
2 Corinthians 11:10… alētheias Christou en mi hoti tas kauchēsias houtas ouk frassiti eis min en …… of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced …
James 4:16… kauchovō en tai alazoneiai vu; pantas kauchēsias toioutas ponēras atō.… in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
kauchēsian“boasting”objectaccusative singular2×
Romans 15:17“reason to boast”echamō oun tan kauchēsian en Christo Iēso teim pros ton …Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my …
1 Corinthians 15:31“boasting”kata hēmeran apothnēskamō, nē tan humeteran kauchēsian, han echamō en Christo Iēso to …… boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.
kauchēsiau“boasting”of, belonging togenitive singular3×
2 Corinthians 8:24… endeixian tau agapau vu kai nu kauchēsiau huper vu eis autoin endeikorōntois eis …… love and the reason for our boasting about you.
2 Corinthians 11:17… afrosuna, en houta ta hupostasia tau kauchēsiau.In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking …
1 Thessalonians 2:19… nu elpidas ē charas ē stefanos kauchēsiau ē ouchi kai vis emprosthen tou …… hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves …