Φαρισαῖος
Pharisee
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
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 Mark — 12 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.
Mark
- Mark 2:16 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc The scribes and the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with the sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, "Why is it that he eats and drinks with tax collectors and sinners?"
- Mark 2:18 Φαρισαῖοι Φαρισαίων n nom pl masc n gen pl masc John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"
- Mark 2:24 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"
- Mark 3:6 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
- Mark 7:1 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.
- Mark 7:3 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
- Mark 7:5 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
- Mark 8:11 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.
- Mark 8:15 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc He charged them, saying, "Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod."
- Mark 9:11 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc They asked him, saying, "Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?"
- Mark 10:2 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"
- Mark 12:13 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
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 |
