Definitions:

• Strong's:
  physiOo-, foo-see-o'-o; from PHYsis (5449) in the primary sense of blowing.
  To inflate, that is, (figuratively) make proud (haughty). KJV "puff up".
• Zodhiates:
  Contracted physiO-, future physiO-so-, from phySAo- (not found), to breathe, blow, inflate.
  1. To inflate, blow or puff up. In the NT spoken only figuratively of pride or self-conceit. (1 Cor. 4:6, 18, 19; 5:2; 8:1; 13:4; Col. 2:18)
• Mounce's:
  GK 5881 (S 5448) Word occurs 7 times.
  1. To inflate, puff up; metaphorically to inflate with pride and vanity. (1 Cor. 8:1)
  2. Passive, to be inflated with pride, to be proud, vain, arrogant. (1 Cor. 4:6, 18, 19; 5:2; 13:4; Col. 2:18)
• Vine's:
  • Puff (up), No. 1, to puff up, blow up, inflate (from physa, bellows), is used metaphorically in the NT, in the sense of being puffed up with pride. (1 Cor. 4:6, 18, 19, 5:2; 8:1; 13:4; Col. 2:18)
• Thayer's:
  physiOo-, -o-.
  Passive, present physiOUmai; perfect participle pephysio-MEnos; first aorist ephysiO-the-n.
  1. (From PHYsis [5449]), to make natural, to cause a thing to pass into nature, (Clement of Alexandria; Simplicius).
  2. The same as phySAo-, physiAo- (from PHYsa a pair of bellows), to inflate, blow up, blow out, to cause to swell up; trop. to puff up, make proud. (1 Cor. 8:1)
     • Passive, to be puffed up, to bear one's self loftily, be proud. (1 Cor. 4:18f; 5:2; 13:4).
     • hyPO tou noOS te-s sarKOS autOU. (Col. 2:18)
     • hyPER tinos kaTA tinos. (1 Cor. 4:6)
• HELPS Word-studies:
  5448 physiOo- (from physa, "air-bellows").
  • Properly, inflate by blowing.
  • Figuratively, swelled up, like an egotistical person spuing out arrogant ("puffed-up") thoughts.

Definitions:

• Strong's:
  PHYo-, foo'-o; a primary verb.
  Probably originally, to "puff" or blow, i.e. to swell up; but only used in the implied sense, to germinate or grow (sprout, produce), literally or figuratively. KJV "spring (up)".
• Zodhiates:
  Future PHYso-, 2nd aorist Ephyn, perfective PEphyka (as instransitive, to be generated, produced).
  To generate, produce, bring forth, let grow, of plants, fruit, or persons. Usages in the New Testament:
  1. 2nd aorist passive indicative ePHYe-n, participle phyEIS, to spring up or grow as a plant. This form of the aorist is used only by later writers, instead of the earlier word Ephyn. (Luke 8:6, 8)
  2. Active intransitive, to spring up, grow up. (Heb. 12:15 quoted from Deut. 29:18)
• Mounce's:
  GK 5886 (S 5453) Word occurs 3 times.
  • To generate, produce; passive to be generated, produced; of plants, to germinate, sprout. (Luke 8:6, 8)
  • Intransitive, to germinate, spring up or grow up. (Heb. 12:15)
• Vine's:
  • Grow, Verb No. 8.
    To produce, is rendered "grew" (passive voice). (Luke 8:6)
  • Spring, Verb No. 4.
    • Used transitively, to bring forth, produce, denotes, in the passive voice, to spring up, grow, of seed. "Was sprung up" and "sprang up" (RV "grew"). (Luke 8:6, 8)
    • In the active voice, intransitively, of a root of bitterness. (Heb. 12:15)
• Thayer's:
  PHYo-, 2nd aorist passive ePHYe-n, participle phyEN (for which the Attic writers more commonly use the 2nd aorist active Ephyn with the participle phys, phyn, in a passive or intransitive sense). From Homer down.
  1. To beget, bring forth, produce. Passive to be born, to spring up, to grow. (Luke 8:6, 8)
  2. Intransitive, to shoot forth, spring up. (Heb. 12:15)

Word: phySIo-sis (5450)

Definitions:

• Strong's:
  phySIo-sis, eo-s, he- (foo-see'-o-sis), from physiOo- (5448).
  Inflation, i.e. (figuratively) haughtiness. KJV "swelling".
• Zodhiates:
  Genitive physiO-seo-s, feminine noun from physiOo- (5448), to inflate, blow or puff up through pride.
  A swelling of pride or ambition, arrogance. (2 Cor. 12:20)
• Mounce's:
  GK 5883 (S 5450) Word occurs 1 time.
  1. Properly, inflation; metaphorically, inflation of mind, pride. (2 Cor. 12:20)
• Vine's:
  Swelling, Noun No. 1.
  Denotes "a puffing up, swelling with pride" (akin to phusioo, "to puff up"). (2 Cor. 12:20, "swellings")
• Thayer's:
  phySIo-sis, physio-seo-s, he- (physiOo-).
  (Vulgate inflatio), a puffing up of soul, loftiness, pride: plural (KJV swellings). (2 Cor. 12:20; ecclesiastical writings)
• HELPS Word-studies:
  Cognate: 5450 physio-sis (from 5448 physioo-, "inflated, like an air-bellow").
  Arrogance (negative pride), fostering an inflated ego ("a swelled sense of self"). (2 Cor. 12:20)

Word: tyPHOo- (5187)

Definitions:

• Strong's:
  typhOo- (toof-o'-o), from a derivative of TYPHo- (5188) "to make a smoke, that is, slowly consume without flame".
  To envelop with smoke, that is, (figuratively) to inflate with self conceit. KJV "high-minded, be lifted up with pride, be proud".
• Zodhiates:
  Contracted tyPHO-, future tyPHO-so-, from TYphos (not found), smoke.
  1. To swell or inflate with pride. In the passive, tyPHOomai, to be lifted up with pride. (1 Tim. 3:6; 6:4; 2 Tim. 3:4)
• Mounce's:
  GK 5605 (S 5187) Word occurs 3 times.
  • To besmoke.
  • Metaphorically, to possess with the fumes of conceit.
  • Passive, to be demented with conceit, puffed up. (1 Tim. 3:6; 6:4; 2 Tim. 3:4)
• Vine's:
  • High-minded, Verb No. 1.
    Properly means to wrap in smoke (from tuphos, smoke; metaphorically, for conceit). It is used in the passive voice, metaphorically in
    • 1 Tim. 3:6, "puffed up," RV (AV, "lifted up with pride");
    • so 6:4, AV, "proud";
    • and 2 Tim. 3:4, AV, "high-minded".
    Compare
    • tuphomai, to smoke. (Matt. 12:20)
    • tupho-nikos, tempestuous (with anemos, wind, understood). (Acts 27:14)
  • Pride, Verb No. 1.
  • Proud.
  • Puff (Up), Verb No. 2.
    tuphoo- is always rendered to puff up in the RV.
  • Smoke, akin to Verb No. 1.
    tupho-, to raise a smoke [akin to tuphos, smoke (not in the NT), and tuphoo-, to puff up with pride], is used in the passive voice in Matt. 12:20, "smoking (flax)", literally, 'caused to smoke', of the wick of a lamp which has ceased to burn clearly, figurative of mere nominal religiousness without the Spirit's power.
    The LXX uses the verb kapnizo-.
• Thayer's:
  tyPHOo-, TYpho-: passive, perfect tetypho-mai; 1 aorist participle typho-thEIS; (TYphos, smoke; pride).
  Properly, to raise a smoke, to wrap as in a mist; used only metaphorically.
  1. To make proud, puff up with pride, render insolent; passive, to be puffed up with haughtiness or pride. (1 Timothy 3:6; Strabo, Josephus, Diogenes Laertius, others)
  2. To blind with pride or conceit, to render foolish or stupid. (1 Timothy 6:4)
     • Perfect participle, beclouded, besotted. (2 Timothy 3:4; Demosthenes, Aristotle, Polybius, Plutarch, others)
• HELPS Word-studies:
  5187 typhOo- (from typhOS, "smoke").
  Properly, to blow smoke, cloud up the air; (figuratively) having a cloudy (muddled) mind-set, i.e. moral blindness resulting from poor judgment which brings further loss of spiritual perception.

Definitions:

Definitions:

• Zodhiates:
  Future hyperaRO-, from hyPER (5228), above, or an intensive, and AIro- (142), to lift up.
  1. To lift above, elevate, exalt, be conceited, arrogant, insolent. In the NT, only in the middle voice hyperAIromai.
     1. Used in an absolute sense. (2 Cor. 12:7)
     2. Followed by ePI (1909), upon, and the accusative. (2 Thess. 2:4)
• Thayer's:
  hyperAIRo-: present middle hyperAIRomai; (hyPER and AIRo-). To lift or raise up over something.
  • Middle to lift oneself up, be exalted, be haughty. (2 Corinthians 12:7, R. V. to be exalted overmuch)
  • epI tina, above one. (2 Thessalonians 2:4)
  • With a dative incommodi TIni, to carry oneself haughtily to, behave insolently toward one. (2 Macc. 5:23; very variously in secular authors from Aeschylus and Plato down)

Definitions:

• Zodhiates:
  Contracted hyperyPSO-, future hyperyPSO-so-, from hyPER (5228), above, high, and hyPSOo- (5312), to elevate.
  1. An intensive meaning to make high above, raise high aloft, to highly exalt.
     1. With the accusative. (Phil. 2:9)
     2. In the passive. (Septuagint: Ps. 97:9 [cf. 37:3])
     3. To highly exalt as in praise. (Septuagint: Dan. 4:34)
• Thayer's:
  hyperuPSOo-, hyperyPSO-; 1 aorist hyperypso-sa; (Ambrose, superexalto); metaphorically,
  1. To exalt to the highest rank and power, raise to supreme majesty.
     • tina. (Philippians 2:9)
     • Passive. (Psalm 96:9)
  2. To extol most highly. (Song of the Three etc. 28ff; Daniel 3:34 [Daniel 4:34], Theod..)
  3. Passive, to be lifted up with pride, exalted beyond measure; to carry oneself loftily. (Psalm 36:35 []; Ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings)

Definitions:

• Zodhiates:
  Contracted hyperphroNO-, future hyperphroNE-so-, from hyPER (5228), above, over, and phroNEo- (5426), to think.
  1. To think highly, consider something of great importance.
• Thayer's:
  hyperphroNEo-, hyperPHROno-; (hypERphro-n).
  From Aeschylus and Herodotus down.
  • To think more highly of oneself than is proper. (Romans 12:3)

Definitions:

• Zodhiates:
  Contracted hypse-lophroNO-, future hypse-lophroNE-so-, from hypse-LOS (5308), high, and phroNEo- (5426), to think.
  1. To be high-minded, proud, arrogant. Intransitive. (Rom. 11:20; 1 Tim. 6:17 [cf. Rom. 12:16])
• Thayer's:
  hypse-lophroNEo-, hypse-loPHROno-; (hypse-LOphro-n, and this from hypse-LOS and PHRE-N).
  1. To be highminded, proud. (Romans 11:20 (R G L text); 1 Timothy 6:17 (R G L Tr WH text) (Schol. ad Pindar Pythagoras 2, 91)
  In Greek writings megaloPHRONein is more common.