Jew vs Payess - What's the difference?
jew | payess |
An adherent of Judaism.
A person who claims a cultural or ancestral connection to the Jewish people (see secular Jew).
* William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice (Act III, scene I)
(chiefly, in the plural) sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews
As nouns the difference between jew and payess
is that jew is an adherent of Judaism while payess is sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews.As a verb Jew
is alternative case form of jew.jew
English
(Jew)Noun
(en noun)- I don't have a religion, but my sister is a Jew and my brother is a Wiccan.
- Hath not a Jew' eyes? Hath not a ' Jew hands, organs
- dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with
- the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
- to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means,
- warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer
- as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
- If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us,
- do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?