Strong's Lexicon
G5448 — φυσιόω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G5448 |
|---|---|
| Word: | φυσιόω |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Etymology: | from G5449 in the primary sense of blowing |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 7 |
| Transliteration: | phusioo |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | foo-see-oh'-o |
| Meaning: | 1. to inflate 2. (figuratively) make proud (haughty) |
| KJV Renderings: | puff up |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φυσιόω, 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: 1Co 8:1; passive, to be puffed up, to bear oneself loftily, be proud: 1Co 4:18; 1Co 5:2; 1Co 13:4; ὑπό τοῦ νως τῆς σαρκός αὐτοῦ, Col 2:18; ὑπέρ τίνος (see ὑπέρ, I. 2 (and cf. 5)) κατά τίνος, 1Co 4:6 (see ἵνα, II. 1 d.). (Ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
φυσιόω (puff up)
1 Corinthians 4:6
- KJV: And these things brethren I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes that ye might learn in us not to think above that which is written that no one of you be puffed up for one against another
- GK: ταύτα δε αδελφοί μετεσχημάτισα εις εμαυτόν και Απολλώ δι΄ υμάς ίνα εν ημίν μάθητε το μη υπέρ ο γέγραπται φρονείν ίνα μη εις υπέρ του ενός φυσιούσθε κατά του ετέρου
1 Corinthians 4:18
- KJV: Now some are puffed up as though I would not come to you
- GK: ως μη ερχομένου δε μου προς υμάς εφυσιώθησάν τινες
1 Corinthians 4:19
- KJV: But I will come to you shortly if the Lord will and will know not the speech of them which are puffed up but the power
- GK: ελεύσομαι δε ταχέως προς υμάς εάν ο κύριος θελήση και γνώσομαι ου τον λόγον των πεφυσιωμένων αλλά την δύναμιν
1 Corinthians 5:2
- KJV: And ye are puffed up and have not rather mourned that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you
- GK: και υμείς πεφυσιωμένοι εστέ και ουχί μάλλον επενθήσατε ίνα εξαρθή εκ μέσου υμών ο το έργον τούτο ποιήσας
1 Corinthians 8:1
- KJV: Now as touching things offered unto idols we know that we all have knowledge Knowledge puffeth up but charity edifieth
- GK: περί δε των ειδωλοθύτων οίδαμεν ότι πάντες γνώσιν έχομεν η γνώσις φυσιοί η δε αγάπη οικοδομεί
1 Corinthians 13:4
- KJV: Charity suffereth long is kind charity envieth not charity vaunteth not itself is not puffed up
- GK: η αγάπη μακροθυμεί χρηστεύεται η αγάπη ου ζηλοί η αγάπη ου περπερεύεται ου φυσιούται
Colossians 2:18
- KJV: no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels intruding into those things which he hath not seen vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind
- GK: μηδείς υμάς καταβραβεύετω θέλων εν ταπεινοφροσύνη και θρησκεία των αγγέλων α μη εώρακεν εμβατεύων εική φυσιούμενος υπό του νοός της σαρκός αυτού