καύχημα
boasting
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
5 distinct verses where G2745 appears in the Nominative case, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
1 Corinthians 2 verses
- 1 Corinthians 5:6 καύχημα n nom sg neut Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
- 1 Corinthians 9:16 καύχημα n nom sg neut For if I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to boast about; for necessity is laid on me; but woe is to me, if I don't preach the Gospel.
2 Corinthians 2 verses
- 2 Corinthians 1:14 καύχημα n nom sg neut as also you acknowledged us in part, that we are your boasting, even as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.
- 2 Corinthians 9:3 καύχημα n nom sg neut But I have sent the brothers that our boasting on your behalf may not be in vain in this respect, that, just as I said, you may be prepared,
Philippians 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“boasting” is the headline sense of the Greek noun καυχημα (kaúchēma). First canonically at Romans 4:2, it enters the text early. It turns up in 11 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in 1 Corinthians, which alone accounts for 27% of its uses. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2745 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 11
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #978
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 3 verses 27%
- 2 Corinthians 3 verses 27%
- Philippians 2 verses 18%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 11 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 10 verses · 91%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Rejoicing 4×, Glorying 2×
- American Standard Version: Glorying 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Boast 2×, Boasting 2×, May boast 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Boasting 7×, Boast 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2745 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2745 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2745 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2745 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- that of which one glories or can glory, matter or ground of glorying
- a glorying or boasting
Word origin
Derived from καυχαομαι (kaucháomai) (G2744) — to boast.
From G2744 ; a boast (properly the objective; by implication the act) in a good or bad sense : - boasting (whereof) to glory (of) glorying rejoice (-ing).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2745 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| καύχημα kaúchēma | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 5:6 | 9 |
| καυχήματος kauchḗmatos | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | 2 Corinthians 5:12 | 1 |
| καύχημά kaúchēmá | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 9:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2745, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word καυχημα appears 15 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 15 verses in 7 books.
- 15
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 15
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 10:21 καύχημα
- 1 Chronicles 16:27 καύχημα
- Psalms 88:18 καύχημα
- Proverbs 11:7 καύχημα
- Jeremiah 13:11 καύχημα
- Zephaniah 3:19 καύχημα
- Zechariah 12:7 καύχημα
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2745) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 10:21 καύχημα He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things, which your eyes have seen.
- Deuteronomy 26:19 καύχημα and to make you high above all nations that he has made, in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that you may be a holy people to Yahweh your God, as he has spoken.
- Deuteronomy 33:29 καύχημα Happy are you, Israel: Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, The shield of your help, The sword of your excellency! Your enemies shall submit themselves to you; You shall tread on their high places.
- 1 Chronicles 16:27 καύχημα Honor and majesty are before him: Strength and gladness are in his place.
- 1 Chronicles 29:11 καύχημα Yours, Yahweh, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, Yahweh, and you are exalted as head above all.
- Psalms 88:18 καύχημα You have put lover and friend far from me, And my friends into darkness.
- Proverbs 11:7 καύχημα When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, And expectation of power comes to nothing.
- Proverbs 17:6 καύχημα Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.
- Proverbs 19:11 καύχημα The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.
- Jeremiah 13:11 καύχημα For as the belt cleaves to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.
- Jeremiah 17:14 καύχημα Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
- Jeremiah 28:41 καύχημα
- Zephaniah 3:19 καύχημα Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.
- Zephaniah 3:20 καύχημα At that time will I bring you in, and at that time will I gather you; for I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth, when I bring back your captivity before your eyes, says Yahweh.
- Zechariah 12:7 καύχημα Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2745) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
