kauchēma · boast, reason for boasting

What it means

kauchēma (καύχημα) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “boast, reason for boasting”.

Boast: a reason for pride or glorying.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Something one can rightly be proud of.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• boast ×6
• boasting ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×3
• 2 Corinthians×3
• Galatians×1
• Philippians×2
• Hebrews×1

• Romans 4:2

  For if Abraham was declared righteous by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.

• 1 Corinthians 5:6

  Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

• 1 Corinthians 9:15

  But I have not used any of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it may be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than— no one will make my boast empty!

• 1 Corinthians 9:16

  For if I proclaim the good news, I have nothing to boast about, for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is to me if I do not proclaim the good news.

• 2 Corinthians 1:14

  just as you also have understood us in part, that we are your boast, just as you also are ours on the day of our Lord Jesus.

• 2 Corinthians 5:12

  We are not commending ourselves to you again, but giving you an occasion of boasting about us, so that you may have an answer for those who boast in appearance and not in heart.

• 2 Corinthians 9:3

  But I sent the brothers, so that our boasting about you may not be made empty in this respect, so that as I was saying, you may be prepared;

• Galatians 6:4

  But let each one test his own work, and then he will have his reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to the other.

• Philippians 1:26

  so that your boasting may abound in the Messiah Jesus because of me through my presence with you again.

• Philippians 2:16

  holding forth the word of life, for a boast to me on the day of the Messiah, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

• Hebrews 3:6

  but the Messiah was faithful as a Son over his house; and that house we are, if we hold fast the boldness and the boast of our hope.