Quick Definition
I puff up, makehaughty
Strong's Definition
to envelop with smoke, i.e. (figuratively) to inflate with self-conceit
Derivation: from a derivative of G5188 (τύφω);
KJV Usage: high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τυφόω, 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, 1Ti_3:6 (Strabo, Josephus, (Diogenes Laërtius, others).
2. to blind with pride or conceit, to render foolish or stupid: 1Ti_6:4; perfect participle beclouded, besotted, 2Ti_3:4 (Demosthenes, Aristotle, Polybius, Plutarch, others).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τυφόω typhoō 3x
to besmoke; met. to possess with the fumes of conceit; pass. to be demented with conceit, puffed up, 1Ti_3:6 ; 1Ti_6:4 ; 2Ti_3:4 ; 1Ti_6:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* τυφόω , -ῶ
( < τῦφος , smoke; metaph ., conceit ),
prop .,
to wrap in smoke; used only metaph ., t o puff up, becloud with pride: pass ., 1Ti_3:6 ; 1Ti_6:4 , 2Ti_3:4 ( Dem ., Arist ., al. ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τυφόω [page 646]
metaphorically am puffed up, am haughty, is confined in the NT to the Pastoral Epp. ( 1Ti_3:6 , al .). For the subst. τῦφος = conceit, vanity, cf. Cic. ad Att . xiii. 29. 2 (cited s.v . τροποφορέω ), Vett. Val. p. 150 .2 ἵνα μὴ δόξω διὰ τῦφον ταῦτα ποιεῖν , and for the adj. τυφώδης , see ib . pp. 2 3 , 12 4 , and cf. Durham Menander , p. 97.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
τυφόω τυ_φόω, φυτ. -ώσω [Etym: τῦφος] "to wrap in smoke;" metaph. in perf. pass. τετύφωμαι, "to be in the clouds, to be crazed, demented", Plat. , Dem.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
τυφόω, -ῶ
(τῦφος, smoke; metaphorically, conceit),
prop., to wrap in smoke; used only metaphorically, to puff up, becloud with pride: pass., 1Ti.3:6 6:4, 2Ti.3:4 (Dem., Arist., al.).†
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