Jewess

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jewess \Jew"ess\, n., fem. of {Jew}.
     A female Jew; a Hebrew woman; a female adherent of Judaism.
     [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  Jewess
       n : a woman who is a Jew

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Jewess
     a woman of Hebrew birth, as Eunice, the mother of Timothy (Acts
     16:1; 2 Tim. 1:5), and Drusilla (Acts 24:24), wife of Felix, and
     daughter of Herod Agrippa I.