"boasting, pride, a later equivalent to καύχημαι, Rom. 3:27; 2 Cor. 7:4, 14; 11:10"
Definition and meaning
boasting, pride, a later equivalent to καύχημαι, Rom. 3:27; 2 Cor. 7:4, 14; 11:10
In the original Greek the word is written: καύχησις
Historical context
Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, one of the most important commercial cities in the empire. Rome had a Jewish population of around 50,000. The letter addresses real tensions between Jewish believers with centuries of Torah tradition and Gentile believers with no such background. Emperor Nero was on the throne. Within ten years he would execute both Paul and Peter.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of kauchesis (G2746) across the King James Bible.
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.
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?
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Common questions
Strong's G2746 (kauchesis) is a Greek word that means: boasting, pride, a later equivalent to καύχημαι, Rom. 3:27; 2 Cor. 7:4, 14; 11:10 It appears 11 times in the King James Bible.
The word kauchesis (G2746) appears 11 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G2746 is kauchesis, a Greek word defined as: boasting, pride, a later equivalent to καύχημαι, Rom. 3:27; 2 Cor. 7:4, 14; 11:10. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
kauchesis is a Greek word found in the New Testament.