Strong's Greek · G2746
G2746 kaúchēsis
καύχησις
kow'-khay-sis
pride
Looking for Hebrew H2746 charchur? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G2746. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
kaúchēsis appears 11 times in Scripture, including Romans 3:27 and 1 Corinthians 15:31. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense
In the King James Version
boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing
Derivation
from G2744 (καυχάομαι);
Appears 11 times in Scripture
“Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.”
“After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming?”
“As surely as the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.”
“In full view of the churches, then, show these men the proof of your love and the reason for our boasting about you.”
“As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.”
“I face death every day, brothers, as surely as I boast about you in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
“Indeed, I was not embarrassed by anything I had boasted to him about you. But just as everything we said to you was true, so our boasting to Titus has proved to be true as well.”
“Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with encouragement; in all our troubles my joy overflows.”
“Therefore I exult in Christ Jesus in my service to God.”
“For this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
