Quick Definition
φυσιόω v. I inflate, puff up
Strong's Definition
from 5449 in the primary sense of blowing; to inflate, i.e. (figuratively) make proud (haughty)
KJV Usage: puff up
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
verb | φύω
88.217 · Moral and Ethical Qualities and Related Behavior · Arrogance, Haughtiness, Pride
to make proud, to make arrogant, to make haughty (a figurative extension of meaning of φυσιόω ‘to puff up, to inflate,’ not occurring in the NT) to cause someone to be proud, arrogant, or haughty
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φυσιόω, -ῶ ; Pass., pres. φυσιοῦμαι; pf. ptep. πεφυσιωμέvos; 1 aor. ἐφυσιώθην; 1. (fr. φύσις), to make natural, to cause a thing to pass into nature, (Clem. Alex.; Simplic.). 2. i. q. φυσάω, φυσιάω (fr. φῦσα a pair of bellows), to inflate, blow up, blow out, to cause to swell up; trop. to puff up, make proud: 1 Co. viii. 1; pass. to be puffed up, to bear one’s self loftily, be proud: 1 Co. iv. 18 sq.; v. 2; xiii. 4 ; ὑπὸ τοῦ vods τῆς σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ, Col. ii. 18; ὑπέρ τινος (see ὑπέρ, I. 2 [and cf. 67) κατά τινος, 1 Co. iv. 6 [see ἵνα, II. 1d.]. (Eccles. and Byzant. writ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
φυσιόω physioō 7x
to inflate puff up; met. to inflate with pride and vanity, 1 Cor. 8:1; pass. to be inflated with pride, to be proud, vain, arrogant, 1 Cor. 4:6, 18, 19; 5:2; 13:4; Col. 2:18*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† φυσιόω, -ῶ
(< φῦσα, bellows), = cl. φυσάω,
to puff or blow up, inflate. Metaph., to puff up, make proud: I Co 8:1. Pass., to be puffed up with pride: I Co 4:18, 19 5:2 13:4; seq. ὑπό, Col 2:18; seq. ὑπὲρ . . . κατά, I Co 4:6 (on the form of the subjc., v. M, Pr., 54; Bl., § 22, 3).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φυσιόω. For the metaph. use of this verb= ‘‘ puff up,” as in 1 Cor 4° ἵνα μὴ els ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἑνὸς φυσιοῦσθε (for form, cf.’ Proleg. p. 54), see Οἷς. ad Att. v. 20. 6 meptonpar. This form φυσάω occurs in Herodas II. 32 τῇ γενῇ φυσῶντες, ““ priding themselves on their birth,’ and Menander’ Erutpér, 5209.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
φυσιόω (phusioō) — to inflate. φῡσιόω, (φῦσα) puff up, [NT]:—passive, πρὸς τὰ θέματα πεφυσιωμένος [NT+1st c.BC+]