Original Word: τυφόω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: tuphoó
Phonetic Spelling: (toof-o'-o)
Definition: to be conceited, foolish
Usage: I puff up, make haughty; pass: I am puffed up, am haughty.

5187 typhóō (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.

Word Origin
from tuphos (vanity, arrogance)
Definition
to be conceited, foolish
NASB Translation
conceited (3).

STRONGS NT 5187: τυφόω

τυφόω, τύφω: passive, perfect τετυφωμαι; 1 aorist participle τυφωθείς; (τῦφος, smoke; pride); properly, to raise a smoke, to wrap 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 Laërtius, 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).

puffed up, be proud.

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

see GREEK tupho

τετυφωμενοι τετυφωμένοι τετυφωται τετύφωται τυφωθεις τυφωθείς τυφωθεὶς tetuphomenoi tetuphōmenoi tetuphotai tetuphōtai tetyphomenoi tetyphoménoi tetyphōmenoi tetyphōménoi tetyphotai tetyphōtai tetýphotai tetýphōtai tuphotheis tuphōtheis typhotheis typhotheìs typhōtheis typhōtheìsInterlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts