Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
He is puffed up (tetufwtai). Perfect passive indicative of tufow, for which see I Timothy 3:6.
Knowing nothing (mhden epistamenov). Present middle participle of epistamai. Ignorance is a frequent companion of conceit.
Doting (noswn). Present active participle of nosew, to be sick, to be morbid over, old word, only here in N.T.
Disputes of words (logomaxiav). Our "logomachy." From logomaxew (II Timothy 2:14), and that from logov and maxomai, to fight over words, late and rare word, here only in N.T. See Plato (Tim. 1085 F) for "wars in words" (maxav en logoiv).
Whereof (ec wn). "From which things."
Surmisings (uponoiai). Old word from uponoew, to surmise, to suspect (Acts 25:18), only here in N.T. All these words are akin (envy, fqonov, strife, eriv, railings or slanders, blasfhmiai), all products of an ignorant and conceited mind.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Timothy 6:4:
John 3:25
1 Corinthians 1:11
1 Timothy 1:4
1 Timothy 3:6
2 Timothy 2:14
Titus 3:2
Titus 3:9
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