Pharisee

'The separated ones', a Jewish party devoted to strict purity whose teachings shaped rabbinic Judaism. The Gospels' polemic turned the name into a word for a hypocrite in English, French, Russian and most other Christian languages.

Weakest linkProbable

The road to English

From Aramaic to Mishnaic Hebrew, Modern Hebrew

From Aramaic to Syriac, Arabic

From Koine Greek to Old Church Slavonic, Russian

From Late Latin to Old French, French

From Late Latin to Italian

From Late Latin to Spanish

From Late Latin to Portuguese

From Late Latin to Polish

From Late Latin to German

From Koine Greek to Korean

100 BCEAramaic

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

ScriptureJewish life