What does jew mean?
Definitions for jew
dʒujew
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word jew.
Princeton's WordNet
Jew, Hebrew, Israelitenoun
a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
GCIDE
Jewnoun
An adherent of Judaism.
Wiktionary
Jewnoun
An adherent of Judaism.
Jewnoun
A person who claims a cultural or ancestral connection to the Jewish people (see secular Jew).
jewverb
To bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud.
Etymology: From the stereotype of Jews as scheming merchants. Compare gyp, from gypsy, and welsh, from Welsh.
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A Jew is typically defined as a person who belongs to the Jewish religion or ethnicity, or whose heritage or descent is Jewish. This includes people who were either born into a Jewish family or have converted to Judaism. Judaism is one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions, centered on the worship of one God and based on the laws and teachings found in the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Judaism's rich cultural, religious, and historical traditions have given rise to a diverse global Jewish community.
Webster Dictionary
Jewnoun
originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite
Etymology: [OF. Juis, pl., F. Juif, L. Judaeus, Gr. 'Ioydai^os, fr. 'Ioydai`a the country of the Jews, Judea, fr. Heb. Yhdh Judah, son of Jacob. Cf. Judaic.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Jew
jōō, n. an inhabitant of Judea: a Hebrew or Israelite: opprobriously used for a usurer, miser, &c.:—fem. Jew′ess.—v.t. and v.i. (coll.) to overreach: cheat.—n. Jew′-bait′ing, the persecuting of Jews.—adj. Jew′ish, belonging to the Jews.—adv. Jew′ishly.—ns. Jew′ishness; Jew's′-ear, a fungus that grows on the elder, and bears some resemblance to the human ear; Jew's' frank′incense, the balsam known as benzoin or gum storax, often used as an incense; Jew's′-harp, a small harp-shaped musical instrument played between the teeth by striking a spring with the finger; Jew's′-mall′ow, a plant much cultivated as a pot-herb by the Jews in Syria; Jew's′-myr′tle, the prickly-leaved plant Ruscus aculeatus; Jew's′-pitch, asphaltum; Jew's′-stone, the fossil spine of a large echinus or sea hedgehog.—Jew's eye, in proverb 'Worth a Jew's eye,' something of high value—from the custom of torturing Jews for money; Jews' houses, in Cornwall, the name given to prehistoric miners' dwellings.—Wandering Jew (see Wander). [O. Fr. Juis—L. Judæus—Gr. Ioudaios—Heb. Yehūdāh, Judah.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
JEW
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Jew is ranked #19105 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Jew surname appeared 1,424 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Jew.
79.1% or 1,127 total occurrences were Asian.
7.7% or 110 total occurrences were White.
5.6% or 80 total occurrences were of two or more races.
4.2% or 60 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'jew' in Nouns Frequency: #1701
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of jew in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of jew in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of jew in a Sentence
Khadr’s transformation from a racist, sexist, Jew-hating terrorist, into a celebrity and folk hero is the result of nearly 10 years of combined propaganda by leftist journalists and lawyers – with Khadr as the willing participant, they have managed to transform a pathological murderer into a ‘ victim, ’ providing Al Qaeda with a great PR victory.
If it's Jew or Arab, it's one blood, i want Lod to go back to how it was 40 or 50 years ago, how it was with coexistence with Jews.
It is ridiculous to say that because Soros is a wealthy Jew, if you criticize him, you're going after Jewish money, anti-Semitism is too real and too dangerous to use as a partisan cudgel.
Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.
I said,' What ? How can that be ? How did I get the kidney ?' they told me I got a present. It is a kidney that was a present from Yigal Yehoshua. I said,' Good.' I was moved. In a war a Jew gave a kidney to Arab Israeli.
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