"Chacham (Sephardic equivalent of 'Rabbi') Yosef Chaim, known as the 'Ben Ish Chai,' became the Rav of Baghdad at the age of twenty-five, in the year 5619 (1859), the year following the death of his father, Chacham Rav Eliyahu." (source)

"Every chacham deserves kavod." (Weiser)

"Chacham! Where did you learn how to weld?!"

"So you thought you could fix it then, did you, chochem?" (Glinert)

"That guy is quite a chacham, getting all those credit cards with no credit history." (Weiser)