Strong's #2745: kauchema (pronounced kow'-khay-mah)

from 2744; a boast (properly, the object; by implication, the act) in a good or a bad sense:--boasting, (whereof) to glory (of), glorying, rejoice(-ing).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kauchēma

1) that of which one glories or can glory, matter or ground of glorying

2) a glorying or boasting

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G2744

Citing in TDNT: 3:645, 423

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Romans 4:2: "by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God."
1 Corinthians 5:6: "Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little"
1 Corinthians 9:15: "die, than that any man should make my glorying void."
1 Corinthians 9:16: "I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me;"
2 Corinthians 1:14: "that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours"
2 Corinthians 5:12: "give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have"
2 Corinthians 9:3: "brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in"
Galatians 6:4: "and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and"
Philippians 1:26: "That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for"
Philippians 2:16: "of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ,"
Hebrews 3:6: "the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm"