Puff (up)

New Testament

Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words

Definition

1phusiooG5448

"to puff up, blow up, inflate" (from phusa, "bellows"), is used metaphorically in the NT, in the sense of being "puffed" up with pride, 1Co 4:6, 1Co 1:4-19, 1Co 5:2, 1Co 8:1, 1Co 13:4, Col 2:18.

2tuphooG5187

is always rendered "to puff up" in the RV. See HIGH-MINDED, PROUD.