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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Aramaic פְּרִישַׁיָּא (pərîšayyâ’), emphatic plural of פְּרִישׁ (pərîš, “separatist”, literally “separated”), related to Hebrew פרוש (parush), qal passive participle of the verb פָּרַשׁ (pāraš), meaning one who is separated for a life of purity.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɸa.riˈsɛ.os/ → /fa.riˈse.os/
Noun
Φαρισαῖος • (Pharisaîos) m (genitive Φαρισαίου); second declension
- (Koine) Pharisee, a member of an ancient religious sect of Judaism.
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References
- “Φαρισαῖος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G5330 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Nestle, Eberhard, Aland, Kurt with et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN