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High-Minded

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: τυφόομαι

(Strong's #5187 — Verb — tuphoo — toof-o'-o )

properly means "to wrap in smoke" (from tuphos, "smoke;" metaphorically, for "conceit"); it is used in the Passive Voice, metaphorically in 1 Timothy 3:6 , "puffed up," RV (AV, "lifted up with pride"); so 1 Timothy 6:4 , AV, "proud," and 2 Timothy 3:4 , AV, "highminded." See PROUD , PUFF (up). Cp. tuphomai, "to smoke," Matthew 12:20 , and tuphonikos, "tempestuous" (with anemos, "wind," understood), Acts 27:14 .

2: ὑψηλοφρονέω

(Strong's #5309 — Verb — hupselophroneo — hoop-say-lo-fron-eh'-o )

"to be highminded," is used in 1 Timothy 6:17 .

Bibliography Information
Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'High-Minded'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​h/high-minded.html. 1940.
 
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