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Pharisee
[ far-uh-see ]
noun
- a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
- (lowercase) a sanctimonious, self-righteous, or hypocritical person.
Pharisee
/ ˈæɪˌː /
noun
- Judaism a member of an ancient Jewish sect that was opposed to the Sadducees, teaching strict observance of Jewish tradition as interpreted rabbinically and believing in life after death and in the coming of the Messiah
- often not capital a self-righteous or hypocritical person
Word History and Origins
Origin of Pharisee1
Word History and Origins
Origin of Pharisee1
Example Sentences
Instead, they’ve become some of the shrillest Pharisees in the right’s culture war, especially against anything that resembles embracing LGBTQ+ folks.
The rebuke by the Pharisees who saw this elicited Jesus’ rebuttal that he was “Lord even of the Sabbath” in Matthew 12:8.
“But I don’t want to be the Pharisees of this generation, where I turn it into some kind of rule that there’s never an exception for.”
His words were drowned out by abortion rights supporter Beau Black, who repeatedly screamed: “Hypocrites and Pharisees! Hypocrites and Pharisees!”
Much like the Pharisees, today's American evangelicals do not represent the faith in any genuine way.
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