Φαρισαίων [19 verses](noun pl masc gen)  "Pharisees" is Pharisaios, which means "the separated," "the separate ones," " separatist" and refers to the religious sect. The word may come from the Hebrew, paras, which means "to break down." So the sense is also "the distinguished" or "the elite." -- (UW) "Pharisees" is an example of where we use the Greek word as the name of the religious sect, instead of translating it. In Greek, the word means the "separatists" or "the judgmental," but it is a Hebrew word meaning "distinguished" or "elite."  So this word means "distinguish" used as a title, "the distinguished." UW --Untranslated Word -- The word "pharisees" means "distinguish" or "separated." It is an untranslated Greek word adopted into English.