Φαρισαῖος
Pharisee
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G5330 appears in the Book of John — 19 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
John
- John 1:24 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
- John 3:1 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
- John 4:1 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
- John 7:32 Φαρισαῖοι Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc n nom pl masc The Pharisees heard the multitude murmuring these things concerning him, and the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.
- John 7:45 Φαρισαίους n acc pl masc The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"
- John 7:47 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The Pharisees therefore answered them, "You aren't also led astray, are you?
- John 7:48 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
- John 8:3 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the midst,
- John 8:13 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The Pharisees therefore said to him, "You testify about yourself. Your testimony is not valid."
- John 9:13 Φαρισαίους n acc pl masc They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
- John 9:15 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."
- John 9:16 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.
- John 9:40 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
- John 11:46 Φαρισαίους n acc pl masc But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
- John 11:47 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
- John 11:57 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
- John 12:19 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, "See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him."
- John 12:42 Φαρισαίους n acc pl masc Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn't confess it, so that they wouldn't be put out of the synagogue,
- John 18:3 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek name Φαρισαιος centers on the idea of “Pharisee.” First canonically at Matthew 3:7, it enters the text early. It turns up in 94 verses across 6 books, a moderately common footprint. The word gravitates to Matthew (31%), then Luke and John. Dig into 94-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G5330 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 94
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 94 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #165
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 165 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 94 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 94 distinct verses.
- Gospels 86 verses · 91%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 33 verses · 35%
- Johannine 19 verses · 20%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 1%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Pharisees 85×, Pharisee 11×, Pharisee's 2×
- American Standard Version: Pharisees 83×, Pharisee 12×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pharisees 83×, Pharisee 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pharisees 87×, Pharisee 12×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G5330 across 100 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G5330 across 98 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G5330 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G5330 across 100 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- A sect that seems to have started after the Jewish exile. In addition to OT books the Pharisees recognised in oral…
Word origin
Origin: of hebrew origin cf G6567
Of hebrew origin (compare [ H6567 ]); a separatist that is exclusively religious ; a Pharisaean that is Jewish sectary : - Pharisee.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms G5330 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Φαρισαῖοι Pharisaîoi | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 9:11 | 51 |
| Φαρισαίων Pharisaíōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 3:7 | 30 |
| Φαρισαῖος Pharisaîos | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 7:39 | 8 |
| Φαρισαίους Pharisaíous | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 14:3 | 5 |
| Φαρισαίοις Pharisaíois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Masculine | Luke 11:42 | 2 |
| Φαρισαίου Pharisaíou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Masculine | Luke 7:36 | 2 |
| Φαρισαῖε Pharisaîe | Noun, Vocative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 23:26 | 1 |
| Φαρισαῖός Pharisaîós | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 23:6 | 1 |