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 Matthew — 29 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.
Matthew
- Matthew 3:7 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, "You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
- Matthew 5:20 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
- Matthew 9:11 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"
- Matthew 9:14 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"
- Matthew 9:34 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc But the Pharisees said, "By the prince of the demons, he casts out demons."
- Matthew 12:2 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, "Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."
- Matthew 12:14 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc But the Pharisees went out, and conspired against him, how they might destroy him.
- Matthew 12:24 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, "This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons."
- Matthew 12:38 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
- Matthew 15:1 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,
- Matthew 15:12 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"
- Matthew 16:1 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.
- Matthew 16:6 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
- Matthew 16:11 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc How is it that you don't perceive that I didn't speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."
- Matthew 16:12 Φαρισαίων Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc n gen pl masc Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- Matthew 19:3 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?"
- Matthew 21:45 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them.
- Matthew 22:15 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
- Matthew 22:34 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, gathered themselves together.
- Matthew 22:41 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
- Matthew 23:2 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses' seat.
- Matthew 23:13 Φαρισαῖοι n voc pl masc "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
- Matthew 23:15 Φαρισαῖοι n voc pl masc Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
- Matthew 23:23 Φαρισαῖοι n voc pl masc "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
- Matthew 23:25 Φαρισαῖοι n voc pl masc "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.
- Matthew 23:26 Φαρισαῖε n voc sg masc You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.
- Matthew 23:27 Φαρισαῖοι n voc pl masc "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
- Matthew 23:29 Φαρισαῖοι n voc pl masc "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
- Matthew 27:62 Φαρισαῖοι n nom pl masc Now on the next day, which was the day after the Preparation Day, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together to Pilate,
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 |
