Lexicon phusioó: to puff or blow up Original Word: φυσιόωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: phusioó Phonetic Spelling: (foo-see-o'-o) Short Definition: I inflate, puff up Definition: I inflate, puff up; pass: I am puffed up, arrogant, proud. HELPS word-Studies 5448 physióō (from physa, "air-bellows") – properly, inflate by blowing; (figuratively) swelled up, like an egotistical person spuing out arrogant ("puffed-up") thoughts. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom phusa (bellows) Definitionto puff or blow up NASB Translationarrogant (5), inflated (1), makes arrogant (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 5448: φυσιόωφυσιόω, φυσιω; passive, present φυσιοῦμαι; perfect participle πεφυσιωμενος; 1 aorist ἐφυσιωθην; 1. (from φύσις), to make natural, to cause a thing to pass into nature (Clement of Alexandria; Simplicius). 2. equivalent to φυσάω, φυσιάω (from φῦσα a pair of bellows), to inflate, blow up, blow out, to cause to swell up; tropically, to puff up, make proud: 1 Corinthians 8:1; passive, to be puffed up, to bear oneself loftily, be proud: 1 Corinthians 4:18; 1 Corinthians 5:2; 1 Corinthians 13:4; ὑπό τοῦ νως τῆς σαρκός αὐτοῦ, Colossians 2:18; ὑπέρ τίνος (see ὑπέρ, I. 2 (and cf. 5)) κατά τίνος, 1 Corinthians 4:6 (see ἵνα, II. 1 d.). (Ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.)
Strong's puff up. From phusis in the primary sense of blowing; to inflate, i.e. (figuratively) make proud (haughty) -- puff up. see GREEK phusis |
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