STRONGS G2745:
													
												
									    		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. 
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