physioō · puff up

What it means

physioō (φυσιόω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “puff up”.

Be puffed up with pride.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Swell with pride, think oneself above others.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• puffed up ×6
• puffs up ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Corinthians×6
• Colossians×1

• 1 Corinthians 4:6

  Now these things, brothers, I have applied figuratively to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that in us you may learn the saying, Not beyond what is written, so that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against the other.

• 1 Corinthians 4:18

  Now some have become puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

• 1 Corinthians 4:19

  But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of those who are puffed up but their power.

• 1 Corinthians 5:2

  And you are puffed up! Should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?

• 1 Corinthians 8:1

  Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

  Love is patient, is kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not puffed up;

• Colossians 2:18

  Let no one disqualify you, delighting in humility and the worship of angels, entering into what he has seen, puffed up without reason by the mind of his flesh,