ΦαρισαῖοςPharisaîos

a separatist, i.e. exclusively religious; a Pharisean, i.e. Jewish sectary

Greek (New Testament) · G5330

Meanings

a Pharisee: Matthew 23:26, Philippians 3:5; usually in plural, Matthew 9:11, Mark 2:18, and elsewhere; Φ. κ. γραμματεῖς, Matthew 5:20, Mark 2:16, Luke 5:21, and elsewhere; Φ. κ. Σαδδυκαῖοι, Matthew 16:1, Acts 23:6, Acts 23:7 and elsewhere; ἀρχιερεῖς, Matthew 21:45, John 7:32, and elsewhere.

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Where it appears

Appears 97 times in the Bible.

  • Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize, he denounced them. “You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?
  • Matthew 5:20 “But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven!
  • Matthew 9:11 But when the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with such scum?”
  • Matthew 9:14 One day the disciples of John the Baptist came to Jesus and asked him, “Why don’t your disciples fast like we do and the Pharisees do?”
  • Matthew 9:34 But the Pharisees said, “He can cast out demons because he is empowered by the prince of demons.”
  • Matthew 12:2 But some Pharisees saw them do it and protested, “Look, your disciples are breaking the law by harvesting grain on the Sabbath.”
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Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.