STRONGS G5243:
ὑπερηφανία,
ὑπερηφανίας,
ἡ (
ὑπερήφανος, which see),
pride, haughtiness, arrogance, the characteristic of one who, with a swollen estimate of his own powers or merits, looks down on others and even treats them with insolence and contempt:
Mark 7:22. (From
Xenophon, and
Plato down; the
Sept. for
גַּאֲוָה and
גָּאון; often in the O. T. Apocrypha.)
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