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High-Minded
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
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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 .
"to be highminded," is used in 1 Timothy 6:17 .
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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.
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.
