2745. kauchéma
Strong's Concordance
kauchéma: a boast
Original Word: καύχημα, ατος, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: kauchéma
Phonetic Spelling: (kow'-khay-mah)
Short Definition: a boasting
Definition: a boasting; a ground of boasting (glorying, exultation).
HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 2745 kaúxēma (a neuter noun) – boasting, focusing on the results of exulting/boasting (note the -ma suffix). This boasting (exulting) is always positive when it is in the Lord, and always negative when based on self. See 2744 (kauχaomai).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2745: καύχημα

καύχημα, καυχήματος, τό (καυχάομαι), very rare in secular authors; the Sept. for תְּהִלָּה, praise, and תִּפְאֶרֶת, ornament, beauty; several times in Sirach:

1. that of which one glories or can glory, matter or ground of glorying: Romans 4:2; 1 Corinthians 9:15; 2 Corinthians 1:14; Philippians 2:16; τό καύχημα ἔχειν εἰς ἑαυτόν μόνον, his glorying confined to himself (R. V. in regard of himself alone), Galatians 6:4; τό καύχημα τῆς ἐλπίδος, the matter for glorying which hope gives, i. e. the hope, of which we glory, Hebrews 3:6.

2. As γέννημα, δίωγμα, θέλημα. ἴαμα, κήρυγμα (2 Timothy 4:17), κλαῦμα, πλήρωμα, φρόνημα, etc., are used for γέννησις, δίωξις, θέλησις, κτλ. (cf. Ellicott on Philippians 4:6), so also (which H. A. W. Meyer persists in denying (as respects the New Testament (see his note on Romans 4:2); so Ellicott and Lightfoot on Galatians 6:4; Lünem. on Heb. as above)) is καύχημα used for καύχησις (Pindar Isthm. 5, 65 (cf. Meyer on Philippians 1:26 note; on the apparent use of nouns in μά in an active sense see Lightfoot on Colossians, p. 257f)), a glorying, boasting: 1 Corinthians 5:6; Philippians 1:26; ὑπέρ τίνος (see καυχάομαι, under the end), 2 Corinthians 5:12; 2 Corinthians 9:3.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
boasting, glorying

From kauchaomai; a boast (properly, the object; by implication, the act) in a good or a bad sense -- boasting, (whereof) to glory (of), glorying, rejoice(-ing).

see GREEK kauchaomai

Forms and Transliterations
καυχημα καύχημα καύχημά καυχηματος καυχήματος kauchema kauchēma kaúchema kaúchemá kaúchēma kaúchēmá kauchematos kauchēmatos kauchḗmatos
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Strong's Greek 2745
11 Occurrences


καύχημα — 10 Occ.
καυχήματος — 1 Occ.

Romans 4:2 N-ANS
GRK: ἐδικαιώθη ἔχει καύχημα ἀλλ' οὐ
NAS: he has something to boast about, but not before
KJV: he hath [whereof] to glory; but
INT: was justified he has ground of boasting but not

1 Corinthians 5:6 N-NNS
GRK: καλὸν τὸ καύχημα ὑμῶν οὐκ
NAS: Your boasting is not good.
KJV: Your glorying [is] not good.
INT: good [is] the boasting of you not

1 Corinthians 9:15 N-ANS
GRK: ἢ τὸ καύχημά μου οὐδεὶς
NAS: man make my boast an empty
KJV: should make my glorying void.
INT: than the boasting of me anyone

1 Corinthians 9:16 N-NNS
GRK: ἔστιν μοι καύχημα ἀνάγκη γάρ
NAS: I have nothing to boast of, for I am under
KJV: nothing to glory of: for
INT: there is to me boasting for necessity indeed

2 Corinthians 1:14 N-NNS
GRK: μέρους ὅτι καύχημα ὑμῶν ἐσμὲν
NAS: did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also
KJV: we are your rejoicing, even as ye
INT: part that boasting of you we are

2 Corinthians 5:12 N-GNS
GRK: διδόντες ὑμῖν καυχήματος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν
NAS: you an occasion to be proud of us, so
KJV: you occasion to glory on our
INT: are giving to you of boasting in behalf of us

2 Corinthians 9:3 N-NNS
GRK: μὴ τὸ καύχημα ἡμῶν τὸ
NAS: in order that our boasting about
KJV: lest our boasting of you
INT: not the boasting of us which [is]

Galatians 6:4 N-ANS
GRK: μόνον τὸ καύχημα ἕξει καὶ
NAS: he will have [reason for] boasting in regard
KJV: shall he have rejoicing in
INT: alone the boasting he will have and

Philippians 1:26 N-NNS
GRK: ἵνα τὸ καύχημα ὑμῶν περισσεύῃ
NAS: so that your proud confidence in me may abound
KJV: your rejoicing may be more abundant
INT: that the boasting of you might abound

Philippians 2:16 N-ANS
GRK: ἐπέχοντες εἰς καύχημα ἐμοὶ εἰς
NAS: of Christ I will have reason to glory because
KJV: that I may rejoice in the day
INT: holding forth for a boast to me in

Hebrews 3:6 N-ANS
GRK: καὶ τὸ καύχημα τῆς ἐλπίδος
NAS: our confidence and the boast of our hope
KJV: and the rejoicing of the hope
INT: and the boasting of the hope

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