Definition of Non-jew

1. Noun. A Christian as contrasted with a Jew.

Exact synonyms: Gentile, Goy
Generic synonyms: Christian
Specialized synonyms: Shegetz
Derivative terms: Gentile

Lexicographical Neighbors of Non-jew

nomothetical
nomotopic
noms
noms de plume
non
non-
non-Bayesian
non-Catholic
non-Christian priest
non-Euclidean
non-Euclidean geometries
non-Euclidean geometry
non-Gaussian
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
non-Japanese
non-Jew
non-Muslim
non-Newtonian
non-Newtonian fluid
non-PKU hyperphenylalaninaemia
non-U
non-Western
non-Witness
non-ablative
non-accredited
non-addicting
non-affiliated
non-agenda
non-agricultural
non-alcoholic

Literary usage of Non-jew

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... had burnt offerings sacrificed for them, and when, on the outbreak of the war with Rome, Eleazar forbade any sacrifice to be accepted from a non-Jew, ..."

2. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1921)
"VB>yoD It seems to me that the meaning of this phrase is that the Jew should not imitate the non-Jew in this unethical practice of charging interest. ..."

3. The Jews and Modern Capitalism by Werner Sombart (1913)
"As time went on it was but natural that there should be an increase of the cases in Jewish law in which the non-Jew was at a disadvantage as compared with ..."

4. Selected Essays by Aḥad Haʻam (1912)
"Who has ever weighed the Jew against the non-Jew of the same class—Jewish tradesman against non-Jewish tradesman, persecuted Jew against persecuted non-Jew, ..."

5. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1891)
"The eternal principles of morality, the life lived by Noah and in his family, are given to all mankind to practice and to live up to ; and the non-Jew, ..."

6. The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the by John Henry Barrows (1893)
"... in the path of all that benefits humanity the Jew must walk abreast with non-Jew, except he pass him in generous rivalry., With the non-Jew we must ..."

7. The Jew in English Fiction by David Philipson (1918)
"course with non-Jews, act with the same uprightness that you manifest toward Jews; call the attention of the non-Jew to his errors. If a non-Jew ask you for ..."

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