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Definition of Pharisee in English: Phariseenoun ˈfarɪsiːˈfɛrəˌsi 1A member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity. Example sentencesExamples - He asked the Jewish leaders, the Pharisees and Sadducees, to repent from their evil ways.
- Nicodemus, mentioned only in the Gospel of John, was a Pharisee and probably a member of the Sanhedrin, the highest governing body.
- He had to make allies with the Pharisees, the Jewish high priests of the temple, because he needed some help in governing.
- Saul was a devout Jew, a Pharisee, a teacher of the law, a member of the Sanhedrin, a believer in the Jehovah of Israel and looked for the coming Messiah.
- As to the framework of his history, Jesus and Judaism are inseparably entwined; he appears closer to the Pharisees than to other Jewish groups in the first century.
- 1.1 A self-righteous or hypocritical person.
Example sentencesExamples - The hypocrites and Pharisees of the Republican Party are exactly the sorts of people Jesus warned us against.
- The Pharisees and hypocrites in the British press should repent their calumnies.
- Though the hypocrites and Pharisees that run the Republican party will have a hard time understanding this, Jesus would have understood it immediately.
Synonyms sanctimonious person, pietist, whited sepulchre, plaster saint, humbug, pretender, deceiver, dissembler, impostor
The Pharisees are mentioned only by Josephus and in the New Testament. Unlike the Sadducees, who tried to apply Mosaic law strictly, the Pharisees allowed some freedom of interpretation. Although in the Gospels they are represented as the chief opponents of Christ they seem to have been less hostile than the Sadducees to the nascent Church, with which they shared belief in the Resurrection Derivatives adjective ˌfarɪˈseɪɪkˌfɛrəˈseɪɪk 1Relating to or characteristic of the Pharisees or Pharisaism. Pharisaic attitudes to the law - 1.1 Self-righteous or hypocritical.
Example sentencesExamples - a Pharisaic rabbi
- The Pharisaic notion of righteousness would not include those poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, or others listed in Jesus' sermon as examples of those who are blessed by God.
- The Pharisaic - rabbinic shape of Judaism sought to distinguish its position materially from that of the Essenes and the latter's ‘Holy Scriptures.’
- Jesus' strong rejection of Pharisaic teaching on purity is underlined by the evangelist in an aside to the reader: ‘Thus he declared all foods clean’.
- Pharisaic bullies who impose their notions on others
adjective farɪˈseɪɪk(ə)lˌfɛrəˈseɪɪk(ə)l What's with these super-righteous, Pharisaical, judgemental Christians? They said I was blaspheming, and committing idolatry. Most rabbinic literature has mischaracterized first century Judaism as being almost totally pharisaical, rather than admitting that the religious situation was one of great flux, in which six or seven different groups were struggling for ascendancy within the Israeli Jewish community.
noun ˈfarɪseɪˌɪz(ə)mˈfɛrəˌseɪˌɪzəm mass noun1The doctrine or practices of the Pharisees, especially strict observance of the traditional and written law. Paul became a convert from Pharisaism - 1.1 The quality of being self-righteous or hypocritical.
Example sentencesExamples - But there is much in Jesus’ teaching that is plainly counter-Pharisaic, including the antitheses of the Sermon on the Mount, which set Jesus well outside the frontiers of Pharisaism.
- Since Pharisaism is a continual problem for Christians, the preacher would do well to identify with the crowd, not with John.
- In Geiger's account, Pharisaism is transformed from a debased and rarified empty ritualism to a commitment to innovation and to the democratization of priestly functions.
- to place a heavier expectation on others than on ourselves is Pharisaism
Origin Old English fariseus, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek Pharisaios, from Aramaic prīšayyā 'separated ones' (related to Hebrew pārūš 'separated'). Definition of Pharisee in US English: Phariseenounˈferəˌsēˈfɛrəˌsi 1A member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity. The Pharisees are mentioned only by Josephus and in the New Testament. Unlike the Sadducees, who tried to apply Mosaic law strictly, the Pharisees allowed some freedom of interpretation. Although in the Gospels they are represented as the chief opponents of Jesus, they seem to have been less hostile than the Sadducees to the nascent Church, with which they shared belief in the Resurrection Example sentencesExamples - He asked the Jewish leaders, the Pharisees and Sadducees, to repent from their evil ways.
- As to the framework of his history, Jesus and Judaism are inseparably entwined; he appears closer to the Pharisees than to other Jewish groups in the first century.
- Saul was a devout Jew, a Pharisee, a teacher of the law, a member of the Sanhedrin, a believer in the Jehovah of Israel and looked for the coming Messiah.
- Nicodemus, mentioned only in the Gospel of John, was a Pharisee and probably a member of the Sanhedrin, the highest governing body.
- He had to make allies with the Pharisees, the Jewish high priests of the temple, because he needed some help in governing.
- 1.1 A self-righteous person; a hypocrite.
Example sentencesExamples - The Pharisees and hypocrites in the British press should repent their calumnies.
- Though the hypocrites and Pharisees that run the Republican party will have a hard time understanding this, Jesus would have understood it immediately.
- The hypocrites and Pharisees of the Republican Party are exactly the sorts of people Jesus warned us against.
Synonyms sanctimonious person, pietist, whited sepulchre, plaster saint, humbug, pretender, deceiver, dissembler, impostor
Origin Old English fariseus, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek Pharisaios, from Aramaic prīšayyā ‘separated ones’ (related to Hebrew pārūš ‘separated’). |