Strong's Concordance
Original word: καύχημα
Transliteration: kauchéma
Definition (short): boast
Definition (full): a boast
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from kauchaomai
Definition: a boast
NASB Translation: boast (3), boast about (1), boasting (3), proud (1), proud confidence (1), reason to be proud (1), reason to glory (1), something to boast about (1).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
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
References
KJV:
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
NASB:
For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
KJV:
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
NASB:
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough?
KJV:
But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.
NASB:
But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.