Word Summary
hyperēphania: haughtiness, disdain
Original Word: ὑπερηφανίαTransliteration: hyperēphania
Phonetic Spelling: (hoop-er-ay-fan-ee'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: haughtiness, disdain
Meaning: haughtiness, disdain
Strong's Concordance
pride.
From huperephanos; haughtiness -- pride.
see GREEK huperephanos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5243: ὑπερηφανίαὑπερηφανία,
ὑπερηφανίας,
ἡ (
ὑπερήφανος, which see),
pride, haughtiness, arrogance, the characteristic of one who, with a swollen estimate of his own powers or merits, looks down on others and even treats them with insolence and contempt:
Mark 7:22. (From
Xenophon, and
Plato down; the
Sept. for
גַּאֲוָה and
גָּאון; often in the O. T. Apocrypha.)