Quick Definition
τυφόω v. I puff up, make haughty
Strong's Definition
from a derivative of 5188; to envelop with smoke, i.e. (figuratively) to inflate with self-conceit
KJV Usage: high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | τύφομαι
88.218 · (τυφόομαι) · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Arrogance, Haughtiness, Pride
to be insanely arrogant, to be extremely proud, to be very arrogant (a figurative extension of meaning of τυφόομαι ‘to be crazy, to be demented,’ not occurring in the NT) to be so arrogant as to be practically demented
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τυφόω, -@: Pass., pf. τετύφωμαι ; 1 aor. ptep. τυφωθείς ; (τύφος, smoke; pride); prop. to raise a smoke, to wrap in a mist; used only metaph. 1. to make proud, puff up with pride, render insolent; pass. to be puffed up with haughtiness or pride, 1 Tim. iii. 6 (Strab., Joseph., Diog. Laért., al.). 2. to blind with pride or conceit, to render foolish or stupid: 1 Tim. vi. 4; pf. ptep. beclouded, besotted, 2 Tim. iii. 4, (Dem., Aristot., Polyb., Plut., al.).
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, 1 Tim. 3:6; 6:4; 2 Tim. 3:4; 1 Tim. 6:4*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* τυφόω, -ῶ
(< τῦφος, smoke; metaph., conceit),
prop., to wrap in smoke; used only metaph., to puff up, becloud with pride: pass., I Ti 3:6 6:4, II Ti 3:4 (Dem., Arist., al.).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τυφόω, metaphorically ‘‘am puffed up,” ‘‘am haughty,” is confined in the NT to the Pastoral Epp. (1 Tim 3°, aZ). For the subst. todos=‘‘ conceit,” “vanity,” cf. Οἷς, ad Att. xiii. 29. 2 (cited 5.7. τροποφορέω), Vett. Val. p. 150 ἵνα μὴ δόξω διὰ τῦφον ταῦτα ποιεῖν, and for the adj. τυφώδης, see 26. pp. 25, 124, and cf. Durham Afenander, Pp. 97.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τυφόω (tuphoō) — be conceited. τῡφόω, (τῦφος) delude, rare in active, ἐτύφωσ᾽ ἐκ δ᾽ ἔλετο φρένας [Refs 7th c.BC+] —but mostly in perfect passive τετύφωμαι (aorist passive τυφωθείς [Refs 2nd c.AD+], to be crazy, demented, ὦ τετυφωμένε σύ [NT+5th c.BC+]: with dative modi, τετυφωμένος τοσαύταις εὐτυχίαις demented, rendered vain, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἐπὶ πλούτοις τε καὶ ἀρχαῖς filled with insane arrogance, [Refs 1st c.AD+] explanation τετύφωμαι by ἐμβεβρόντημαι.
II. τυφῶσαι· πνῖξαι, ἀπολέσαι, [Refs 5th c.AD+]