Jow vs Jew - What's the difference?
jow | jew |
A former, pre-metric unit of length in India, equal to approximately a quarter of an inch
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)
As nouns the difference between jow and jew
is that jow is a former, pre-metric unit of length in India, equal to approximately a quarter of an inch while Jew is an adherent of Judaism.As a verb Jew is
alternative case form of jew.jow
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Noun
(en noun)jew
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(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?