Crossword clues for pharisee
pharisee
- Husband invested in foreign capital with extremely evasive hypocrite
- Member of an ancient Jewish sect
- Strict observer
- One in an ancient Jewish sect
- Jewish sect member of old
- Strictly observant one, in biblical times
- Self-righteous person — one of an ancient Jewish sect
- Old Jewish sectarian
- John the Baptist opponent
- Biblical hypocrite
- Ancient Jew
- A self-righteous or sanctimonious person
- A member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions
- Member of an ancient Jewish school
- Rival of a Sadducee
- Sadducee's opponent
- Member of an ancient, scholarly Jewish sect
- Self-righteous one
- Sanctimonious sort
- Quietly he accepts a pay increase, the hypocrite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pharisee \Phar"i*see\ (f[a^]r"[i^]*s[=e]), n. [L. Pharisaeus, Gr. Farisai^os, from Heb. p[=a]rash to separate.] One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them to separate themselves from the other Jews.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from Old English Fariseos, Old French pharise (13c.), and directly from Late Latin Pharisæus, from Greek Pharisaios, from Aramaic perishayya, emphatic plural of perish "separated, separatist," corresponding to Hebrew parush, from parash "he separated." Ancient Jewish sect (2c. B.C.E.-1c. C.E.) distinguished by strict observance but regarded as pretentious and self-righteous, at least by Jesus (Matt. xxiii:27). Meaning "self-righteous person, formalist, hypocrite" is attested from 1580s.
WordNet
n. a self-righteous or sanctimonious person
a member of an ancient Jewish sect noted for strict obedience to Jewish traditions
Usage examples of "pharisee".
He was a Pharisee, and now he recognized him: Nicodemus, the liberal member of the Bethabara commission.
As they drew near John saw with dismay that they were many of the same Pharisees and Sadducees who had tested the preacher at Bethabara, and the Nazarene in Jerusalem.
Zend Avesta, the Talmud, and the Ebionitish documents of the earliest Christians, who mixed their interpretations of the mission and teaching of Christ with the poetic visions of Zoroaster and the cabalistic dogmatics of the Pharisees.
On our way out of the village we ran into a gang of older boys, led by Jakan, the son of Iban the Pharisee.
It was Iban the Pharisee, standing with several other Pharisees from Nazareth.
It might seem that if the guards told the chief priests, scribes, and Pharisees, of the miracles which occurred at the sepulchre, they must immediately have believed and proclaimed their belief in the Messiahship and resurrection of the crucified Savior.
His face stretched into an involuntary grin, as he tried to envision the Nazarite cleanly groomed, short-haired, piously robed and adorned with the phylacteries of a Pharisee.
Thee that I am not as other men are, spiritually proud, formalists, hypocrites, or even as this Pharisee.
Radnor said--I may be dense, I cannot comprehend--that the precepts were suitable for seminaries of Pharisees.
Kundry, the sorceress, who attempts his destruction at one time and is in the service of the knights of the Grail at another, anoints his feet and dries them with her hair, as the Magdalen did the feet of Christ in the house of Simon the Pharisee.
When he invites the Pharisees to cast the first stone, when he asks whose image is ob the coin to be paid in tribute, when he plays on words and says ‘.
The character of the publican and sinner is not always practically incompatible with that of the modern Pharisee, for the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dulness of our own jokes.
That was why The Man had those head-on collisions with the Pharisees and the Sadducees.
The Pharisees, Hasidim, and others resenting these impieties rose presently in a revolt that was put down with the greatest cruelty by the reigning Alexander Jannaeus (r.
Practically all of his attacks on the Pharisees are not directed against the strictness of their observance of the Mosaic law, but against their formalism, and sometimes even against their laxity.