Synonyms:
Jewish, Judaic
Meaning: of or relating to Jews or their culture or religion; "He is Jewish"; "a Jewish wedding"
Usage examples
One of the first things noted as the writer went into this tomb was the fact that it is a Jewish tomb.
They seemed to be Jewish lads of the newsboy class, and they eyed the display of candles appraisingly.
With one of his followers he had partaken of a dish that had been prepared for him by a Jewish girl who hated him and all of his sect.
All the girls who had come had been there then; the Jewish band with fiddles and zithers had come, too, and at last the long expected cart had arrived with the wines and provisions.
Writers anxious to discover Jewish or Christian analogies, forcibly construed myths to suit their pet theories, and for indolent observers it was convenient to catalogue their gods in antithetical classes.
Later when the Jewish exiles were carried to Babylonia, they naturally came into contact again with the Babylonian account of the flood, but in its later form, as the comparisons already instituted clearly indicate.
Josephus was then in fear for the city, and leaped out, and all the Jewish multitude with him; these fell together upon the Romans in great numbers, and drove them away from the wall, and performed a great many glorious and bold actions.
However, the rest of the [Jewish] multitude did not lay aside their quarrels with him, when the [foreign] auxiliaries were gone; but they had a perpetual war with Alexander, until he had slain the greatest part of them, and driven the rest into the city Berneselis; and when he had demolished that city, he carried the captives to Jerusalem.