Kauchesis means “boasting” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2746 — charchur (“extreme burning”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2746 καύχησις (kauchesis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kauchesis (kau'-khay-sis) n. 1. boasting (properly, the act 2. (by implication) the object), in a good or a bad sense It has 22 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include boasting, whereof, and glorying. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kauchesis (kau'-khay-sis) n. 1. boasting (properly, the act 2. (by implication) the object), in a good or a bad sense [from G2744] KJV: boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing Root(s): G2744
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2746. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
pride
Usage: καύχησις, -εως, ἡ (καυχάομαι), [in LXX for תִּפְאָרָה (1Ch.29:13, Eze.16:12, al) ;] a boasting, glorying: Rom.3:27, 2Co.11:10 11:17, Jas.4:16; before ὑπέρ, 2Co.7:4 8:24; ἐτί, with genitive, 2Co.7:14; ἔχω τὴν κ. ἐν Χρ. Ἰησ., Rom.15:17; στέφανος καυχήσεως (Ez. l.with, al.), 1Th.2:19; of the cause of glorying, a boast ( = καύχημα), 2Co.1:12.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kauchesis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2746 (καύχησις) appears 10 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
12 indexed usages in New Testament.
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
9 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And now, Lord, we give thanks to thee, and praise thy glorious name.
Old age is a crown of honor, But it is found in the ways of righteousness.
Sow wheat, and reap thorns; their portions shall not profit them: be ashamed of your boasting, because of reproach before the Lord.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
He that hath no experience knoweth little: But he that hath traveled is full of prudence.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2746.
And now, Lord, we give thanks to thee, and praise thy glorious name.
Old age is a crown of honor, But it is found in the ways of righteousness.
Sow wheat, and reap thorns; their portions shall not profit them: be ashamed of your boasting, because of reproach before the Lord.
And I put a pendant on thy nostril, and rings in thine ears, and a crown of glory on thy head.
And thou tookest thy fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of what I gave thee, and thou madest to thyself male images, and thou didst commit whoredom with them.
And I will deliver thee into their hands, and they shall break down thy house of harlotry, and destroy thy high place; and they shall strip thee of thy garments, and shall take thy proud ornaments, and leave thee naked and bare.
And they shall strip thee of thy raiment, and take away thine ornaments.
and they raised a sound of music, and that with men coming from the wilderness out of a multitude of men, and they put bracelets on their hands, and a crown of glory on their heads;
And thou, son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take their strength from them, the pride of their boasting, the desires of their eyes, and the pride of their soul, their sons and their daughters,
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.
I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
For our rejoicing 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.
Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
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, which I made before Titus, is found a truth.
Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.
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.
As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia.
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
He that hath no experience knoweth little: But he that hath traveled is full of prudence.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2746, grouped by book.
Kauchesis (Strong's G2746) is a Greek word most simply glossed "boasting". kauchesis (kau'-khay-sis) n. 1. boasting (properly, the act 2. (by implication) the object), in a good or a bad sense
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's G2746 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2746 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as boasting, whereof, and glorying. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 9 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2746, with linked reader references where each row is available.