What does Jewish mean?
Definitions for Jewish
ˈdʒu ɪʃjew·ish
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Princeton's WordNet
Jewish, Judaicadjective
of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion
"He is Jewish"; "a Jewish wedding"
GCIDE
Jewishadjective
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Judaism.
Wiktionary
Jewishadjective
Being a Jew, or relating to Jews, their religion or their culture.
Jewishadjective
Yiddish
Jewishnoun
The Yiddish language.
Wikipedia
Jewish
Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים, ISO 259-2: Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation: [jehuˈdim]) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the ethnic religion of the Jewish people, although its observance varies from strict to none.Jews originated as an ethnic and religious group in the Middle East during the second millennium BCE, in a part of the Levant known as the Land of Israel. The Merneptah Stele of ancient Egypt appears to confirm the existence of a people of Israel somewhere in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE (Late Bronze Age). The Israelites, as an outgrowth of the Canaanite population, consolidated their hold in the region with the emergence of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Some consider that these Canaan-sedentary Israelites melded with incoming nomadic groups known as the "Hebrews". The experience of life in the Jewish diaspora, from the Babylonian captivity and exile (though few sources mention this period in detail) to the Roman occupation and exile, and the historical relations between Jews and their homeland in the Levant thereafter became a major feature of Jewish history, identity, culture, and memory.In the following millennia, Jewish diaspora communities coalesced into three major ethnic subdivisions according to where their ancestors settled: the Ashkenazim (Central and Eastern Europe), the Sephardim (initially in the Iberian Peninsula), and the Mizrahim (Middle East and North Africa). Prior to World War II, the global Jewish population reached a peak of 16.7 million, representing around 0.7 percent of the world population at that time. During World War II, approximately 6 million Jews throughout Europe were systematically murdered by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Since then, the population has slowly risen again, and as of 2018, was estimated to be at 14.6–17.8 million by the Berman Jewish DataBank, comprising less than 0.2 percent of the total world population. The modern State of Israel is the only country where Jews form a majority of the population. Jews have significantly influenced and contributed to human progress in many fields, both historically and in modern times, including in science and technology, philosophy, ethics, literature, politics, business, art, music, comedy, theatre, cinema, architecture, food, medicine, and religion. Jews wrote the Bible, founded Christianity, and had an indirect but profound influence on Islam. In these ways, Jews have also played a significant role in the development of Western culture.
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jewish
Jewish refers to anything related to or associated with the Jewish people, their customs, traditions, religion, culture, or history. Jewish people trace their roots back to the ancient Israelites in the Bible and share a common religious heritage based on Judaism, which is founded on the principles contained in the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, and explained in later texts such as the Talmud. Being Jewish can result from being born to a Jewish family, conversion, or self-identification.
Webster Dictionary
Jewishadjective
of or pertaining to the Jews or Hebrews; characteristic of or resembling the Jews or their customs; Israelitish
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Rank popularity for the word 'Jewish' in Adjectives Frequency: #557
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Jewish in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Jewish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Jewish in a Sentence
What we see is that the vast majority of the American public, 80%, say (a candidate being Jewish) would not make a difference in their vote, one way or the other, the remainder are pretty much evenly divided between those who say they would be more likely to vote for a Jewish candidate and those who say they would be less likely to vote for a Jewish candidate.
Whoopi is an ally to the Jewish community, she is. She said something that she shouldn’t have said. OK, fine. But… don’t put her in a corner and marginalize her. Use her to the best of your ability to get the conversation and your points across about what’s wrong about that kind of thinking because she’s not the only one who thinks it.
It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.
Trying to separate Jews from the idea that JEWS were targeted on their holy day at their house of worship, is a mistake and it is insulting and disappointing, it is also dangerous to downplay an attack against Jewish people as being something else at a time of rising anti-Jewish bigotry that we should all be paying attention to. It makes no sense to try and separate Saturday's hostagecrisis from the people who suffered and who were the most impacted: Jews, their Jewish families and the Jewish world.
Over the last 3 months, I’ve gotten to know Meyers off camera and off the court, i've gotten to know what's in his heart and who he is. Meyers has learned a lot about the Jewish community, meeting with Holocaust survivors, and reading books about Jewish history.
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