Jew vs Stacte - What's the difference?
jew | stacte |
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)
One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in preparing incense; possibly an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.
:And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte , and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight. Exodus 30:34, Douay-Rheims-Challoner translation
(Webster 1913)
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As a verb jew
is (offensive) to bargain, to attempt to gain an unfair price in a business deal; to defraud.As a noun stacte is
one of the sweet spices used by the ancient jews in preparing incense; possibly an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.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?