Lexicon tuphoó: to be conceited, foolish Original Word: τυφόωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: tuphoó Phonetic Spelling: (toof-o'-o) Short Definition: I puff up, make haughty Definition: I puff up, make haughty; pass: I am puffed up, am haughty. HELPS word-Studies 5187 typhóō (from typhos, "smoke") – properly, to blow smoke, cloud up the air; (figuratively) having a cloudy (muddled) mind-set, i.e. moral blindness resulting from poor judgment which brings further loss of spiritual perception. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom tuphos (vanity, arrogance) Definitionto be conceited, foolish NASB Translationconceited (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5187: τυφόωτυφόω, τύφω: passive, perfect τετυφωμαι; 1 aorist participle τυφωθείς; ( τῦφος, smoke; pride); properly, to raise a smoke, to wrap in a mist; used only metaphorically: 1. to make proud, puff up with pride, render insolent; passive, to be puffed up with haughtiness or pride, 1 Timothy 3:6 (Strabo, Josephus, (Diogenes Laërtius, others). 2. to blind with pride or conceit, to render foolish or stupid: 1 Timothy 6:4; perfect participle beclouded, besotted, 2 Timothy 3:4 (Demosthenes, Aristotle, Polybius, Plutarch, others).
Strong's puffed up, be proud. From a derivative of tupho; to envelop with smoke, i.e. (figuratively) to inflate with self-conceit -- high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud. see GREEK tupho |
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