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NASB | Acts 21:39 But Paul said, "I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; and I beg you, allow me to speak to the people." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 21:39 Paul said, "I am a Jew from Tarsus in Cilicia (Mersin Province, Turkey), a citizen of no insignificant city; and I beg you, allow me to speak to the people." |
Subject: Who is a Jew? |
Bible Note: Jew(s) (Definition) 'The word Jew is derived ultimately from the tribe of Judah through Middle English Iewe, Old French Ieu, Latin Iudaeus, and Greek Ioudaios (compare the woman's name Judith, which originally meant “Jewess”). 'The Old Testament Era. The Hebrew yehudim meant originally DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH and then THOSE WHO INHABITED THE TERRITORIES CLAIMED BY THEM (2 Kings 16:6; 2 Kings 25:25; Jeremiah 32:12)...' (Emphasis added.)To read more go to: www.studylight.org/dic/hbd/ (Butler, Trent C. Editor.. "Entry for 'JEWS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT'". "Holman Bible Dictionary".) * * * * * * * * * * * * * 'Originally, a Jew was A MEMBER OF THE STATE of Judah during the period of the division of Israel into two nations: Judah and Israel. It became a common reference from the 8th century B.C. Today it is used of ADHERENTS OF THE JEWISH RELIGION.' (Emphasis added.) (http://www.carm.org/dictionary/dic_i-k.htm#Jews) * * * * * * * * * * * * * 'Jew (jû) 'n. '1. An adherent of Judaism as a religion or culture. '2. A member of the widely dispersed people originally descended from the ancient Hebrews and sharing an ethnic heritage based on Judaism. '3. A native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Judah.' (www.answers.com/topic/jew) * * * * * * * * * * * * * 'The Hebrew name "Yehudi" (plural Yehudim) came into being when the Kingdom of Israel was split between the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah. The term originally referred to the people of the southern kingdom, although the term B'nei Yisrael (Israelites) was still used for both groups. After the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom leaving the southern kingdom as the only Israelite state, the word Yehudim gradually came to refer to people of the Jewish faith as a whole, rather than those specifically from Judah. The English word Jew is ultimately derived from Yehudi (see Etymology). Its first use in the Bible to refer to the Jewish people as a whole is in the Book of Esther.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew) 'Judaism shares some of the characteristics of a nation, an ethnicity, a religion, and a culture, making the definition of who is a Jew vary slightly depending on whether a religious or national approach to identity is used. For discussions of the religious views on who is a Jew and how these views differ from each other, please see Who is a Jew? (Who is a Jew? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Generally, in modern secular usage, Jews include three groups: people who practice Judaism and have a Jewish ethnic background (sometimes including those who do not have strictly matrilineal descent), people without Jewish parents who have converted to Judaism; and those Jews who, while not practicing Judaism as a religion, still identify themselves as Jewish by virtue of their family's Jewish descent and their own cultural and historical identification with the Jewish people.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew) |
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