phusioo describes becoming inflated with self-importance, whether in personal pride, rivalry, or knowledge without love.

The supplied verses consistently show inflation into self-important pride: people are inflated against one another, by assumed knowledge, or without reason, while love is described as not being puffed up and as building up rather than inflating.

1. Inflation into self-important pride · dominant

   In 1 Corinthians 4:6, the present passive form concerns being inflated for one person against another; 1 Corinthians 4:18 and 1 Corinthians 4:19 describe certain people as inflated in the context of Paul's coming and testing power rather than words. In 1 Corinthians 5:2 the perfect passive participle stands beside the failure to mourn, Colossians 2:18 describes a person puffed up without reason by a fleshly mind, and 1 Corinthians 8:1 contrasts knowledge that inflates with love that builds up; 1 Corinthians 13:4 likewise says love is not puffed up.

   1 Corinthians 4:61 Corinthians 4:181 Corinthians 4:191 Corinthians 5:21 Corinthians 8:11 Corinthians 13:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB renders the term with "inflated," "inflates," and "puffed up" across the supplied verses, including "inflated with pride" in 1 Corinthians 5:2. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the verses' overall contrast with love, mourning, power, and sound judgment rather than supplying separate lexical senses.