Jew vs Semite - What's the difference?
jew | semite |
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)
A member of any of a number of peoples of ancient southwestern Asia including the Akkadians]], Phoenicians, Hebrews, Palestinians and other [[Arab, Arabs.
A descendant of any of these peoples.
A member of a modern people that speak a Semitic language.
A descendant of the biblical Patriarch Shem.
As a verb jew
is (offensive) to bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud.As a noun semite is
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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?