The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jew \Jew\, n. [OF. Juis, pl., F. Juif, L. Judaeus, Gr. ?, fr. ? the country of the Jews, Judea, fr. Heb. Y[e^]h[=u]d[=a]h Judah, son of Jacob. Cf. Judaic.]
Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babylonish captivity, any member of the new state; a Hebrew; an Israelite.
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An adherent of Judaism.
Jew's frankincense, gum styrax, or benzoin.
Jew's mallow (Bot.), an annual herb ( Corchorus olitorius) cultivated in Syria and Egypt as a pot herb, and in India for its fiber.
Jew's pitch, asphaltum; bitumen.
The Wandering Jew, an imaginary personage, who, for his cruelty to Christ during his passion, is doomed to wander on the earth till Christ's second coming.
Wandering Jew, any of several house plants of the genera Zebrina and Tradescantia having white-striped leaves, especially the creeping plants Zebrina pendula and Tradescantia fluminensis.
Wikipedia
The Wandering Jew is an 1844 novel by the French writer Eugène Sue.
The Wandering Jew is a 1923 British silent fantasy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Matheson Lang, Hutin Britton and Malvina Longfellow. It was based on a play by E. Temple Thurston. A Jewish man is condemned to wander aimlessly through the ages. It was remade in 1933 as The Wandering Jew.
The Wandering Jew is a 1933 British fantasy drama film produced by the Gaumont- Twickenham Film Studios. It is the story of a Jew (played by Conrad Veidt) who is forced to wander the Earth for centuries because he rebuffed Jesus while he was carrying his cross.
Other cast members included a very young Peggy Ashcroft, Francis L. Sullivan, and Felix Aylmer.
The Wandering Jew is an English broadside ballad dating back to the late 17th century. The ballad, subtitled "The Shoemaker of JERUSALEM. Who lived when Our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST was Crucified, and by him appointed to Wander till his Coming Again," tells the story of the legendary figure of the Wandering Jew, his interaction with Jesus Christ, and his subsequent eternal wanderings. Variations in the text reveal a stronger sense of Anti-Semitism in the ballad. Copies of the ballad can be found at the National Library of Scotland, the British Library, and the Huntington Library. Online facsimiles of the ballad are also available for public consumption at the UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive.
Usage examples of "the wandering jew".
And Omally who is by his birth a Catholic will back me up on this - the Wandering Jew was said to have spat upon Our Lord at the time of the Passion and been cursed to wander the planet for ever awaiting Christs return, at which time he would be given a chance to apologize.
He took it absolutely for granted that the Wandering Jew was alive, because Jesus told him to tarry until he came back.
And he spent all his time in here consulting manuscripts about the Wandering Jew to find out where he’.
He found an account of the Wandering Jew in Prague in the fourteenth century, and another of him visiting Cornelius Agrippa, and another of him being in Wittenberg and Brunswick at the end of the seventeenth century.
He circles the Earth like the Flying Dutchman, like the Wandering Jew, skyport to skyport to skyport, an unending voyage from nowhere to nowhere.
Somebody will be left to guard the truth, and instead of the Wandering Jew the new humans will have the mysterious, immortal woman.
We conversed politely, about the weather and the latest French novels (she found The Wandering Jew affecting, as I recall, while I stood up for the Musketeers) ,10 and she ate a dainty water-ice and started to claw at my thigh under the table.
There's times, you know,' he confided as he swallowed his drink, 'when I feel like the Wandering Jew himself, doomed to ply from one silt-laden port to another, right through to Eternity.