TO SWELL, be puffed up — hence to push on presumptuously. ⚠ The consonants turn up sixteen times in the Hebrew Bible, but fourteen of those are two unrelated nouns: the Ophel, the citadel-mound in Jerusalem, and the tumours that afflict the Philistines in 1 Samuel. As a VERB it occurs in exactly two verses — Numbers 14:44, where Israel pushes up the hill to fight without the ark, and Habakkuk 2:4 (not yet on these pages): 'Look — puffed up, not upright, is his soul within him; but the righteous shall live by his emunah.' ⚠ That makes Habakkuk's antithesis the two halves of Numbers 14's failure, named in its own two roots — the people will not ya'aminu (v11) and then they ya'pilu (v44). Deuteronomy 1:43, retelling the same scene, replaces it with the ordinary vattazidu, from zid. → first discussed at Num 14:44