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Notes: There are undoubtedly certain connotative differences in these terms for boasting, but this cannot be determined from existing contexts.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: καύχημα; -τος

Related lemmas: καυχάομαι

Sense 1: to boast

Semantic entry: 33.368

Semantic domains: Communication

Subdomains: Boast

Definition: to express an unusually high degree of confidence in someone or something being exceptionally noteworthy{N:001}

Notes: 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.

CO1 5:6: RV CO1 5:6 · LV CO1 5:6 · Read together CO1 5:6

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OET-RV CO1 5:6

6 It isn’t good how you all boast. Don’t you realise that a little bit of yeast can raise a whole loaf of bread?

OET-LV CO1 5:6

6 Not good is the boast of _you _all.
Not you _all _have _known that a_little leaven, all the lump is _leavening?

CO2 9:3: RV CO2 9:3 · LV CO2 9:3 · Read together CO2 9:3

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OET-RV CO2 9:3

3 But I sent the brothers so that our boasting about you all won’t be invalidated in this regard, so that you’ll be prepared just as I had told them.

OET-LV CO2 9:3

3 But I _sent the brothers, in _order _that not the boast of _us, which is about you _all, may _be _voided in the regard this, in _order _that as I _was _saying, having _prepared you _all _may _be.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

CO1: RV CO1 5:6 · LV CO1 5:6 · Read together CO1 5:6

CO2: RV CO2 9:3 · LV CO2 9:3 · Read together CO2 9:3

HEB: RV HEB 3:6 · LV HEB 3:6 · Read together HEB 3:6

Sense 2: what one boasts about

Semantic entry: 33.371

Semantic domains: Communication

Subdomains: Boast

Definition: (derivative of καυχάομαι ‘to boast,’ 33.368: αὐχέω / 33.368: ἐγκαυχάομαι / 33.368: καυχάομαι / 33.368: καύχημα / 33.368: καύχησις) the referent of boasting, namely, that which one boasts about

Notes: For another interpretation of καύχημα in RV CO2 1:14 · LV CO2 1:14 · Read together CO2 1:14, see 25.203: καύχημα.

CO2 1:14: RV CO2 1:14 · LV CO2 1:14 · Read together CO2 1:14

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OET-RV CO2 1:14

14 as you initially partially understood us. Then on the day when Master Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) returns, you’ll be able to boast about us just as we do about all of you.

OET-LV CO2 1:14

14 as also you _all _understood us in part, that the_boast of _you _all we _are, just _as also you _all are of _us, in the day of _the master Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa).

CO2 5:12: RV CO2 5:12 · LV CO2 5:12 · Read together CO2 5:12

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OET-RV CO2 5:12

12 Again, we’re not trying to promote ourselves to you, but we’re giving you all an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can respond to those who take pride in outside appearances rather than in what’s in the heart.

OET-LV CO2 5:12

12 Not again ourselves we _are _commending to _you _all, but opportunity giving to _you _all of _boast for us, in _order _that you _all _may _be _having toward the ones in appearance boasting, and not in the_heart.

All 3 recorded passages for this sense

CO2: RV CO2 1:14 · RV CO2 5:12 · LV CO2 1:14 · LV CO2 5:12 · Read together CO2 1:14 · Read together CO2 5:12

HEB: RV HEB 3:6 · LV HEB 3:6 · Read together HEB 3:6

Sense 3: the right to boast

Semantic entry: 33.372

Semantic domains: Communication

Subdomains: Boast

Definition: the justification for boasting

ROM 4:2: RV ROM 4:2 · LV ROM 4:2 · Read together ROM 4:2

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OET-RV ROM 4:2

2 Because if Avraham was declared guiltless because of his actions, maybe he could boast? But not towards God,

OET-LV ROM 4:2

2 For/Because if Abraʼam by works was _justified, he _is _having a_boast, but not toward god.

CO1 9:15: RV CO1 9:15 · LV CO1 9:15 · Read together CO1 9:15

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15 But I haven’t taken advantage of any of those rights, and even now, I’m not writing this to ask for material support for myself—I’d rather die than have someone deprive me of this reason for boasting.

OET-LV CO1 9:15

15 But I not have _resorted to _nothing of _these things.
Not and I _wrote these things, in _order _that thus it _may _become with me, because/for good it _is for _me rather to _die _off, than the boast of _me no _one will _be _emptying.

All 4 recorded passages for this sense

ROM: RV ROM 4:2 · LV ROM 4:2 · Read together ROM 4:2

CO1: RV CO1 9:15–16 · LV CO1 9:15–16 · Read together CO1 9:15–16

CO2: RV CO2 5:12 · LV CO2 5:12 · Read together CO2 5:12

Sense 4: basis of pride, reason for being proud

Semantic entry: 25.203

Semantic domains: Attitudes and Emotions

Subdomains: Pride [legitimate]

Definition: the basis for or the content of one’s feeling of legitimate pride

Notes: For another interpretation of καύχημα in RV CO2 1:14 · LV CO2 1:14 · Read together CO2 1:14, see 33.371: καύχημα / 33.371: καύχησις.

ROM 4:2: RV ROM 4:2 · LV ROM 4:2 · Read together ROM 4:2

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OET-RV ROM 4:2

2 Because if Avraham was declared guiltless because of his actions, maybe he could boast? But not towards God,

OET-LV ROM 4:2

2 For/Because if Abraʼam by works was _justified, he _is _having a_boast, but not toward god.

CO2 1:14: RV CO2 1:14 · LV CO2 1:14 · Read together CO2 1:14

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OET-RV CO2 1:14

14 as you initially partially understood us. Then on the day when Master Yeshua (Jesus; Grk. Yesus) returns, you’ll be able to boast about us just as we do about all of you.

OET-LV CO2 1:14

14 as also you _all _understood us in part, that the_boast of _you _all we _are, just _as also you _all are of _us, in the day of _the master Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa).

All 5 recorded passages for this sense

ROM: RV ROM 4:2 · LV ROM 4:2 · Read together ROM 4:2

CO2: RV CO2 1:14 · LV CO2 1:14 · Read together CO2 1:14

GAL: RV GAL 6:4 · LV GAL 6:4 · Read together GAL 6:4

PHP: RV PHP 1:26 · RV PHP 2:16 · LV PHP 1:26 · LV PHP 2:16 · Read together PHP 1:26 · Read together PHP 2:16

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

καύχημα

Form 1

Sense 1: to boast

Sense 2: what one boasts about

Sense 3: the right to boast

Sense 4: basis of pride, reason for being proud