Definition: To inflate, blow or puff up. In the NT spoken only figuratively of pride or self-conceit. Also from phySAo-: emphySAo- (1720), to breathe on, blow on.

Definition: A swelling of pride or ambition, arrogance.

Definition: To swell or inflate with pride. In the passive, tyPHOomai, to be lifted up with pride.

Definition: To be high-minded, proud, arrogant. Intransitive.

Definition: To raise up, hoist up, be taken up, be borne upward, to lift up.

1. In the middle voice ePAIromai, to lift up oneself, to rise up against something, followed by kaTA (2596), against.
2. Metaphorically, to lift up or exalt oneself.

1. 2 Cor. 10:5; Septuagint: Ezra 4:19; Dan. 11:14.
2. 2 Cor. 11:20; Septuagint: Prov. 19:18; Jer. 13:15.

Definition: To life above, elevate, exalt, be conceited, arrogant, insolent. In the NT, only in the middle voice hyperAIromai.

1. Used in an absolute sense.
2. Followed by ePI (1909), upon, and the accusative.

1. 2 Cor. 12:7.
2. 2 Thess. 2:4.

Definition: An intensive meaning to make high above, raise high aloft, to highly exalt.

1. With the accusative.
2. In the passive.
3. To highly exalt as in praise.

1. Phil. 2:9.
2. Septuagint: Ps. 97:9 (cf. 37:35).
3. Septuagint: Dan. 4:34.

BT Internet:  Passive--be conceited, arrogant. 'Be puffed up, inflated.'

St. John Chrysostom, Homily 33:  "Is not puffed up." For so we see many who think highly of themselves on the score of these very excellencies; for example, on not being envious, nor grudging, nor mean-spirited, nor rash: these evils being incidental not to wealth and poverty only, but even to things naturally good. But love perfectly purges out all. And consider: he that is long-suffering is not of course also kind. But if he be not kind, the thing becomes a vice, and he is in danger of falling into malice. Therefore she supplies a medicine, I mean kindness, and preserves the virtue pure. Again, the kind person often becomes over-complaisant; but this also she corrects. For "love," saith he, "vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up:" the kind and long-suffering is often ostentatious; but she takes away this vice also.

Adam Clarke:  Is not puffed up] ou fusioutai
Is not inflated with a sense of its own importance; for it knows it has nothing but what it has received; and that it deserves nothing that it has got. Every man, whose heart is full of the love of God, is full of humility; for there is no man so humble as he whose heart is cleansed from all sin. It has been said that indwelling sin humbles us; never was there a greater falsity: PRIDE is the very essence of sin; he who has sin has pride, and pride too in proportion to his sin: this is a mere popish doctrine; and, strange to tell, the doctrine in which their doctrine of merit is founded! They say God leaves concupiscence in the heart of every Christian, that, in striving with and overcoming it from time to time, he may have an accumulation of meritorious acts: Certain Protestants say, it is a true sign of a very gracious state when a man feels and deplores his inbred corruptions. How near do these come to the Papists, whose doctrine they profess to detest and abhor! The truth is, it is no sign of grace whatever; it only argues, as they use it, that the man has got light to show him his corruptions; but he has not yet got grace to destroy them. He is convinced that he should have the mind of Christ, but he feels that he has the mind of Satan; he deplores it, and, if his bad doctrine do not prevent him, he will not rest till he feels the blood of Christ cleansing him from all sin.

True humility arises from a sense of the fullness of God in the soul; abasement from a sense of corruption is a widely different thing; but this has been put in the place of humility, and even called grace; many, very many, verify the saying of the poet: "Proud I am my wants to see; Proud of my humility."

Geneva Notes:  He describes the force and nature of charity, partly by a comparison of opposites, and partly by the effects of charity itself. And by this the Corinthians may understand both how profitable it is in the church, and how necessary: and also how far they are from it, and therefore how vainly and without cause they are proud.

John Gill's Exposition of the Bible:  Is not puffed up, swelled with pride, and elated with a vain conceit of himself, of his parts and abilities, of his learning, eloquence, wisdom, and knowledge, as the false teachers in this church were; knowledge without grace, unsanctified knowledge, mere notional speculative knowledge, puffeth up; but charity, or the grace of love, does not; that edifies and preserves persons from being puffed up with themselves, or one against another.

John W. Gregson:  It is not puffed up like a bellows--"a windbag."

Matthew Henry:  Charity subdues pride and vain-glory; It vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, is not bloated with self-conceit, does not swell upon its acquisitions, nor arrogate to itself that honour, or power, or respect, which does not belong to it. It is not insolent, apt to despise others, or trample on them, or treat them with contempt and scorn. Those who are animated with a principle of true brotherly love will in honour prefer one another, Romans 12:10. They will do nothing out of a spirit of contention or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind will esteem others better than themselves, Philippians 2:3. True love will give us an esteem of our brethren, and raise our value for them; and this will limit our esteem of ourselves, and prevent the tumours of self-conceit and arrogance. These ill qualities can never grow out of tender affection for the brethren, nor a diffusive benevolence. The word rendered in our translation vaunteth itself bears other significations; nor is the proper meaning, as I can find, settled; but in every sense and meaning true charity stands in opposition to it. The Syriac renders it, non tumultuatur--does not raise tumults and disturbances. Charity calms the angry passions, instead of raising them. Others render it, Non perperàm et perversè agit--It does not act insidiously with any, seek to ensnare them, nor tease them with needless importunities and addresses. It is not froward, nor stubborn and untractable, nor apt to be cross and contradictory. Some understand it of dissembling and flattery, when a fair face is put on, and fine words are said, without any regard to truth, or intention of good. Charity abhors such falsehood and flattery. Nothing is commonly more pernicious, nor more apt to cross the purposes of true love and good will.

Jamieson, Fausset, & Brown:  Not puffed up -- with party zeal, as some at Corinth were (1Co 4:6).

B.W. Johnson:  Nor is it inflated.

Mark Heber Miller:  (Love) does not get puffed up. The Greek is OU PHASIOUTAI and is variously translated: NJB: never conceited; RSV: not arrogant; GDSP: not put on airs; PME: nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own importance. We are not surprised this conceit and arrogance was a Corinthian problem. (2 Corinthians 12:20) Nor that this word is used most often within Paul’s two letters to the Corinthian Christians. Paul states the egotistical attitude often involves favoritism or a sectarian spirit involving personalities. (1 Corinthians 4:6) It is often manifest by what we say about ourselves. (1 Corinthians 4:18, 19) It is also seen in a failure to repent. (1 Corinthians 5:2)

In other letters Paul associates being puffed up with a fleshly way of thinking. (Colossians 2:18) Or, a head-strong disposition. (2 Timothy 3:4) It is always a danger for ambitious men. (1 Timothy 3:6) Paul associates the attitude with those who teach erroneous doctrine not founded on the Gospel. Note what Paul writes: "If anyone teaches differently and not from a healthy approach to the words of our Lord Jesus Christ -- not according to the true form of worship -- such a man is puffed up, not possessed of a good understanding, diseased about speculations and word-fights which result in envy, strife, blasphemies, evil suspicions --- men completely corrupt who rub others the wrong way, despoiling the truth, thinking to profit from the true form of worship." (1 Timothy 6:3-5 NRS)

Robertson's Word Studies:  {Is not puffed up} (ou fusioutai). Present direct middle indicative of fusiow from fusis (late form for fusaw, fusiaw from fusa, bellows), to puff oneself out like a pair of bellows. This form in Herodas and Menander. Is not arrogant.

The Theologian: The Internet Journal for Integrated Theology:  Love ou fusioutai unlike the Corinthians of course, who Paul has rebuked for just this problem throughout the letter.[40] They were arrogant when they really should have been ashamed[41] at the damage their attitudes were causing in the Church.

Bill Turner:  "Phusioutai," is the present middle indicative of "phusioo," to puff oneself up like a pair of bellows. It is only used by Paul in the New Testament, in 1Cor.4v6,18,19. 5v2. 8v1. 13v4. and Col.2v18., the Corinthians suffered a great deal from this spiritual disease, from the number of times that Paul mentions it. Our dear Lord Jesus is "meek and lowly in heart." Mt.11v29. He knows the proud afar off, but dwells with the contrite in heart. Ps.138v6. Is.66v2. Love is not conceited, or blown up, like a pair of bellows, with a sense of its own importance. This is the inward cause of the previous outward manifestation. The greater our "puffage" is, the greater our spiritual "shrinkage" will be, and the more certain it will be that the Lord will deflate us. The present tense shows that the truly loving Christian always refuses to have conceited and inflated ideas about themselves, or get puffed up about their successes, achievements, or spirituality.

Vincent's Word Studies:  Puffed up (fusioutai). See on ch. iv. 6, and compare ch. viii. 1. Of inward disposition, as the previous word denotes outward display. The opposite is put by Dante:

"That swells with love the spirit well-disposed." Paradiso, x., 144.