STRONGS NUMBER G5448


Word Summary
physioō: to puff or blow up
Original Word: φυσιόω
Transliteration: physioō
Phonetic Spelling: (foo-see-o'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to puff or blow up
Meaning: to puff or blow up
Strong's Concordance
puff up.

From phusis in the primary sense of blowing; to inflate, i.e. (figuratively) make proud (haughty) -- puff up.

see GREEK phusis

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5448: φυσιόω

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: 1 Corinthians 8:1; passive, to be puffed up, to bear oneself loftily, be proud: 1 Corinthians 4:18; 1 Corinthians 5:2; 1 Corinthians 13:4; ὑπό τοῦ νως τῆς σαρκός αὐτοῦ, Colossians 2:18; ὑπέρ τίνος (see ὑπέρ, I. 2 (and cf. 5)) κατά τίνος, 1 Corinthians 4:6 (see ἵνα, II. 1 d.). (Ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.)