Word

καύχησις

kaúchēsis · G2746 · Greek · 11 occurrences

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Meanings

to boast

To express an unusually high degree of confidence in someone or something being exceptionally noteworthy

Examples
Romans 3:27 Where then is boasting? It has been excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.
Romans 15:17 Therefore in Christ Jesus I have found reason for boasting in things pertaining to God.
1 Corinthians 15:31 I affirm, brothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.
what one boasts about

(Derivative of καυχάομαι ‘to boast,’) The referent of boasting, namely, that which one boasts about

Examples
1 Corinthians 15:31 I affirm, brothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.
pride, to be proud

The state of being rightfully proud

Examples
1 Corinthians 15:31 I affirm, brothers and sisters, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, that I die daily.
2 Corinthians 7:4 My confidence in you is great; my boasting in your behalf is great. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.
1 Thessalonians 2:19 For who is our hope, or joy or crown of pride, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? Or is it not indeed you?

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐγώI, we 3

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

4 occurrences in 3 groups

οὗτοςthis 2
τοιοῦτοςsuch 1
ὑμέτεροςyour 1

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἔχωto have 1
θεόςGod 1
ΤίτοςTitus 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

φράσσωto cause to cease 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἔχωto have 1

What it is said to bePredicate

5 occurrences in 5 groups

ἀλήθειαtruth 1
μαρτύριονtestimony, witness 1
πολύςmany 1
πονηρόςevil, wicked, bad 1
ποῦwhere? 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

ἔνδειξιςproof 1
στέφανοςcrown 1
ὑπόστασιςconfidence, substance 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Pride, to be proud25.204: καύχησις denotes the state or disposition of being proud, the inward pride itself rather than a specific act. In 2 Corinthians 1:12, Paul appeals to “our proud confidence,” describing the settled assurance with which he can point to his own conduct before the Corinthians.
To boast33.368: καύχησις can also stand for the act of boasting in the ordinary sense. Romans 3:27 asks rhetorically, “Where then is boasting? It has been excluded,” treating boasting itself as something faith in Christ rules out as a ground of standing before God.
What one boasts about33.371: The noun likewise names the specific object or content of one’s boasting. In 2 Corinthians 7:4, Paul writes, “My confidence in you is great; my boasting in your behalf is great,” identifying the Corinthians themselves as what he boasts about.

Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

καυχάομαι kaucháomai · G2744 · to boast · 36×καύχημα kaúchēma · G2745 · to boast, what one boasts about · 11×καύχησιςkaúchēsis · G2746κατακαυχάομαι katakaucháomai · G2620 · to boast against, to degrade, to despise · 5×στατήρ statḗr · G4715 · stater, coin · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon καυχήσεως, ἡ (καυχάομαι), the act of glorying: Rom 3:27; 2 Cor 9:4 Rec.; 2 Cor 11:10, 2…

καυχήσεως, ἡ (καυχάομαι), the act of glorying: Rom 3:27; 2 Cor 9:4 Rec.; 2 Cor 11:10, 2 Cor 11:17; Jas 4:16; στέφανος καυχήσεως, crown of which we can boast, 1 Thess 2:19; Ezek 16:12; Prov 16:31; ὑπέρ τίνος (on behalf) of one (cf. καυχάομαι, under the end), 2 Cor 7:4; 2 Cor 8:24; ἐπί τίνος, before one, 2 Cor 7:14; ἔχω (τήν critical editions) καύχησιν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, the glorying which I have I ascribe to Christ, or I owe it to Christ that I am permitted to glow (see ἐν, I. 6 b., p. 211b), Rom 15:17; 1 Cor 15:31; that of which one glories, cause of glorying, 2 Cor 1:12. (The Sept. several times for תִּפְאֶרֶת; ((Diogenes Laërtius 10, 7 at the end); Philod. in Vol. Hercul. Oxfort. i., p. 16.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Pride [legitimate]3 occurrences Boast11 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0