Jesse vs Jerry - What's the difference?
jesse | jerry |
(biblical character) The father of king David.
* : 1 Samuel 17:12 :
of biblical origin.
* 1882 , Jesse James (folk song):
(female), a variant of Jessie.
* 1985 , The Progress of Love , Chatto&Windus 1987, ISBN 0701131616, page 166-167:
(architecture) A representation of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art, such as a genealogical tree in stained glass or a branched candlestick.
A nickname for Jeremiah, Jeremy, Jerrold, Gerald, Gerard, and similar male names; also used as a formal male given name.
A diminutive of the female given names Geraldine and Jerilyn.
An old nickname for a chamber pot (also referred to as a potty) (Dated UK)
As nouns the difference between jesse and jerry
is that jesse is (architecture) a representation of the genealogy of christ, in decorative art, such as a genealogical tree in stained glass or a branched candlestick while jerry is .As a proper noun jesse
is (biblical character) the father of king david.jesse
English
(wikipedia Jesse)Proper noun
(s)- Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse ; and he had eight sons; and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
- Jesse James was a lad that killed many a man, / He robbed the Glendale train. / He stole from the rich and he gave to the poor, / He'd a hand and a heart and a brain.
- We had decided to change the spelling of our names. Mine was to become Jesse instead of Jessie, and hers was to be Meribeth, not MaryBeth. We signed these names to the test papers we turned in at school.
- The teacher waved my paper in the air. "I can't give a mark to this person, because I don't know who this person is," she said. "Who is this Jesse'?" She spelled the name out loud. "That is a boy's name. Does anybody here know a boy named ' Jesse ?"