1 Timothy 6:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof {G1537} cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τετύφωται, μηδὲν ἐπιστάμενος, ἀλλὰ νοσῶν περὶ ζητήσεις καὶ λογομαχίας, ἐξ ὧν γίνεται φθόνος, ἔρις, βλασφημίαι, ὑπόνοιαι πονηραί,

Transliteration

He has been tetyphōtai, nothing epistamenos, but nosōn about zētēseis kai logomachias, out of which ginetai phthonos, eris, blasphēmiai, hyponoiai ponērai,

Grammar Details

• *tetyphōtai*: perfect indicative, 3rd person singular, passive - has been puffed up/conceited
• *mēden*: negative adjective, accusative, neuter, singular - nothing
• *epistamenos*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular, middle - knowing/understanding
• *alla*: conjunction, adversative - but
• *nosōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular, active - being sick/diseased/morbidly interested
• *peri*: preposition - about/concerning
• *zētēseis*: accusative, feminine, plural - questions/controversies/debates
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *logomachias*: accusative, feminine, plural - word battles/quarrels about words
• *ex*: preposition - out of/from
• *hōn*: relative pronoun, genitive, feminine, plural - which
• *ginetai*: present indicative, 3rd person singular, middle/passive - comes/arises
• *phthonos*: nominative, masculine, singular - envy/jealousy
• *eris*: nominative, feminine, singular - strife/contention
• *blasphēmiai*: nominative, feminine, plural - blasphemies/slanders
• *hyponoiai*: nominative, feminine, plural - suspicions/evil thoughts
• *ponērai*: nominative, feminine, plural - evil/wicked

Word Meanings

• *tetyphōtai*: puffed up/conceited/clouded in thinking/proud
• *epistamenos*: knowing/understanding/comprehending
• *nosōn*: sick/diseased/obsessed/morbidly interested
• *zētēseis*: questions/controversies/debates/speculations
• *logomachias*: word battles/quarrels about words/verbal disputes
• *phthonos*: envy/jealousy/spite
• *eris*: strife/contention/quarreling
• *blasphēmiai*: blasphemies/slanders/evil speaking
• *hyponoiai*: suspicions/evil thoughts/malicious suspicions
• *ponērai*: evil/wicked/malicious/harmful

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 3:6 : 6 not a novice, lest being puffed up he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
• 2 Tim 2:14 : 14 Of these things put them in remembrance, charging [them] in the sight of the Lord, that they strive not about words, to no profit, to the subverting of them that hear.
• 2 Tim 2:23 : 23 But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.
• 2 Tim 3:4 : 4 traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;
• 1 Tim 1:4 : 4 neither to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questionings, rather than a dispensation of God which is in faith; [so do I now].
• 1 Tim 1:7 : 7 desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.
• 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,
• Titus 3:9 : 9 but shun foolish questionings, and genealogies, and strifes, and fightings about law; for they are unprofitable and vain.
• Acts 15:2 : 2 And when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and questioning with them, [the brethren] appointed that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
• Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaketh great swelling [words]), showing respect of persons for the sake of advantage.
• Rev 3:17 : 17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art the wretched one and miserable and poor and blind and naked:
• Acts 18:15 : 15 but if they are questions about words and names and {G2596} your own law, look to it yourselves; {G1063} I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.
• Rom 2:8 : 8 but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, [shall be] wrath and indignation,
• Rom 12:16 : 16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits.
• Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
• Rom 14:1 : 1 But him that is weak in faith receive ye, [yet] not for decision of scruples.
• 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
• 1 Cor 3:18 : 18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man thinketh that he is wise among you in this world, let him become a fool, that he may become wise.
• 1 Cor 8:1-2 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. 2 {G1161} If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;
• 1 Cor 11:16 : 16 But if any man seemeth to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.
• 1 Cor 11:18 : 18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that divisions exist among you; and I partly believe it.
• 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you [captive], if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.
• Gal 5:15 : 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
• Gal 5:20-21 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, 21 envyings, {G5408} drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did {G2532} forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
• Gal 6:3 : 3 For if a man thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
• Phil 1:15 : 15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
• Phil 2:3 : 3 [ doing] nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind {G2233} each counting other better than himself;
• Phil 2:14 : 14 Do all things without murmurings and questionings:
• Col 2:18 : 18 Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshipping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
• 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he {G5613} {G2316} sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
• Jas 1:19 : 19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Jas 2:14-18 : 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit? 17 Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself. 18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from [thy] works, and I by my works will show thee [my] faith.
• Jas 4:1-2 : 1 Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot {G3756} obtain: ye fight and war; {G1161} ye have not, because ye ask not.
• Jas 4:5-6 : 5 Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore [the scripture] saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
• 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk {G3050} which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling [words] of vanity, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by lasciviousness, those who are just escaping from them that live in error;
• Jude 1:10 : 10 But these rail at whatsoever things they know not: and what they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, in these things are they destroyed.
• Prov 13:7 : 7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: There is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great wealth.
• Prov 25:14 : 14 [ As] clouds and wind without rain, [So is] he that boasteth himself of his gifts falsely.
• Prov 26:12 : 12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.
• Isa 58:4 : 4 Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
• Acts 8:9 : 9 But there was a certain man, Simon by name, who beforetime in the city used sorcery, and amazed the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
• Acts 8:21-23 : 21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right before God. 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee. 23 For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.