Quick Definition
καύχησις, εως, ἡ n.f. the act of boasting, exultation
Strong's Definition
from 2744; boasting (properly, the act; by implication, the object), in a good or a bad sense
KJV Usage: boasting, whereof I may glory, glorying, rejoicing
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -εως | καυχάομαι
33.368 · Communication · Boast
to boast to express an unusually high degree of confidence in someone or something being exceptionally noteworthy Whether in any particular context the boasting is legitimate or not depends upon what is boasted about. In a number of languages, however, quite different terms are employed, depending upon the differing degrees of justification for such boasting.
ROM 3:27 · ROM 15:17 · 1CO 15:31 · 2CO 7:14 · 2CO 8:24 · 2CO 11:10 · 2CO 11:17 · 1TH 2:19 · JAS 4:16
33.371 · Communication · Boast
what one boasts about (derivative of καυχάομαι ‘to boast,’ 33.368) the referent of boasting, namely, that which one boasts about
1 There are undoubtedly certain connotative differences in these terms for boasting, but this cannot be determined from existing contexts.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
καύχησις, -ews, 7, (καυχάομαι), the act of glorying: Ro. iii. 27; 2 Co. ix. 4 Rec.; 2Co. xi. 10,17; Jas. iv. 16; στέφανος καυχήσεως, crown of which we can boast, 1 Th. ii. 19; Ezek. xvi. 12; Prov. xvi. 31; ὑπέρ τινος, (on behalf) of one [ef. καυχάομαι, sub fin.], 2 Co. vii. 4; vill. 24; ἐπί twos, before one, 2 Co. vii. 14; ἔχω [τὴν crit. edd.] καύχησιν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ, the glorying which I have I ascribe to Christ, or I owe it to Christ that I am permitted to glory (see ἐν, I. 6 Ὁ. p. 211), Ro. xv. 17; 1 Co. xy. 31; that of which one glories, cause of glorying, 2 Co. i.12. (Sept. several times for ἈΠ ΘΠ: [Diog. Laeért. 10, 7 fin.]; Philod. in Vol. Hercul. Oxfort. i. p. 16.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
καύχησις kauchēsis 11x
boasting, pride, a later equivalent to καύχημαι, Rom. 3:27; 2 Cor. 7:4, 14; 11:10
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† καύχησις, -εως, ἡ
(< καυχάομαι), [in LXX for תִּפְאֶרֶה (I Ch 29:13, Ez 16:12, al);]
a boasting, glorying: Ro 3:27, II Co 11:10, 17, Ja 4:16; seq. ὑπέρ, II Co 7:4 8:24; ἐτί, c. gen., II Co 7:14; ἔχω τὴν κ. ἐν Χρ. Ἰησ., Ro 15:17; στέφανος καυχήσεως (Ez 16:12, al.), I Th 2:19; of the cause of glorying, a boast ( = καύχημα), II Co 1:12.†
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
καύχησις (kauchēsis) — pride. καύχ-ησις, εως, ἡ, boasting, [NT+4th c.BC+]