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Word study · Greek

typhóō

puffed up

Say it: too-FO-o (approximate)

τυφόω

What it means

To wrap in smoke, to puff up with pride. In 3:6, "lest being puffed up he fall"; in 6:4, someone "conceited, knowing nothing"; in 2 Timothy 3:4.

Range of meaning

  • Puff upFill with pride.
  • Be conceitedThink too highly of oneself.

In 1 Timothy

  • Chapter 3

    "Lest being puffed up he fall" (3:6).

  • Chapter 6

    "He is conceited, knowing nothing" (6:4).

Every verse (2)

Verses where G5187 is tagged in the Hebrew text: STEPBible Data (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. About our sources