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 .