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Strong's #5187: tuphoo (pronounced toof-o'-o)

from a derivative of 5188; to envelop with smoke, i.e. (figuratively) to inflate with self-conceit:--high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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tuphoō

1) to raise a smoke, to wrap in a mist

1a) metaphorically

1a1) to make proud, puff up with pride, render insolent

1a2) to be puffed up with haughtiness or pride

2) to blind with pride or conceit, to render foolish or stupid

2a) beclouded, besotted

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: from a derivative of G5188




Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

1 Timothy 3:6: "Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the"
1 Timothy 6:4: " He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and"
2 Timothy 3:4: "Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;"









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