Bible dictionaries

Jewry

What Bible dictionaries say about “Jewry”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Jewry - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

JEW'RY, n. Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews, whence the name of a street in London.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

ju'-ri, joo'-ri: In Da 5:13 the King James Version, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "Judah"; in the New Testament, in two places in the King James Version, Lu 23:5; Joh 7:1, where the Revised Version (British and American) has correctly "Judaea" (Ioudaia) (which see).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(the country of Judea), the same word elsewhere rendered Judah and Judea. It occurs several times in the Apocalypse and the New Testament, but once only in the Old Testament -- (Daniel 5:13) Jewry comes to us through the Norman-French, and is of frequent occurrence in Old English.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith