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.
29 distinct verses where G5330 appears in the Genitive case, across 5 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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 7 verses
- 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 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 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 22:41 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,
Mark 4 verses
- 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 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 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.
Luke 8 verses
- Luke 5:33 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"
- Luke 6:2 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"
- Luke 7:36 Φαρισαίων Φαρισαίου n gen pl masc n gen sg masc One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.
- Luke 7:37 Φαρισαίου n gen sg masc Behold, a woman in the city who was a sinner, when she knew that he was reclining in the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of ointment.
- Luke 12:1 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
- Luke 14:1 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc It happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.
- Luke 17:20 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Being asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God would come, he answered them, "The Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation;
- Luke 19:39 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Some of the Pharisees from the multitude said to him, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!"
John 6 verses
- 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 7:48 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
- 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 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.
Acts 4 verses
- Acts 15:5 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to charge them to keep the law of Moses."
- Acts 23:6 Φαρισαίων Φαρισαῖός Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc n nom sg masc n gen pl masc But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"
- Acts 23:7 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc When he had said this, an argument arose between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
- Acts 23:9 Φαρισαίων n gen pl masc A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees part stood up, and contended, saying, "We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let's not fight against God!"
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 |
