Φαρισαῖος

See also: Φαρισαίος

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

(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰa.riˈsɛ.os/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸa.riˈsɛ.os/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fa.riˈse.os/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fa.riˈse.os/

Noun

Φαρισαῖος • (Pharisaîos) m (genitive Φαρισαίου); second declension

(Koine) Pharisee, a member of an ancient religious sect of Judaism.
- 93 CE – 94 CE, Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 15.3

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Φαρισαῖος; τοῦ Φαρισαίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Φαρισαῖος ho Pharisaîos	τὼ Φαρισαίω tṑ Pharisaíō	οἱ Φαρισαῖοι hoi Pharisaîoi
Genitive	τοῦ Φαρισαίου toû Pharisaíou	τοῖν Φαρισαίοιν toîn Pharisaíoin	τῶν Φαρισαίων tôn Pharisaíōn
Dative	τῷ Φαρισαίῳ tôi Pharisaíōi	τοῖν Φαρισαίοιν toîn Pharisaíoin	τοῖς Φαρισαίοις toîs Pharisaíois
Accusative	τὸν Φαρισαῖον tòn Pharisaîon	τὼ Φαρισαίω tṑ Pharisaíō	τοὺς Φαρισαίους toùs Pharisaíous
Vocative	Φαρισαῖε Pharisaîe	Φαρισαίω Pharisaíō	Φαρισαῖοι Pharisaîoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Φαρισαϊκός (Pharisaïkós)

Descendants

Greek: Φαρισαίος (Farisaíos)
→ Coptic: ⲫⲁⲣⲓⲥⲉⲟⲥ (phariseos)
→ Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌹𐌿𐍃 (fareisaius)
→ Latin: Pharī̆saeus (see there for further descendants)
→ Old Armenian: փարիսեցի (pʿarisecʿi)
- Armenian: փարիսեցի (pʿarisecʿi)

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; et al. (2012) Novum Testamentum Graece‎, 28th revised edition, 4th corrected printing edition, Stuttgart: Stuttgart Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, →ISBN