Usually offensive; jew

Member of the Semitic people who lived in Palestine at the time of the Old Testament and who traced their ancestry to Abraham of Ur, a city of Sumer.
Also the language of the Old Testament and Judaic literature, as well as the official language (since 1948) of the state of Israel, one of the Semitic languages of the Hamito-Semitic (Afro-Asiatic) family.
The Hebrew people were widely dispersed during the Roman Empire and learned the languages and cultures of those they lived among in Europe, the Near East, Asia, and (after 1492) the Americas, but continued using liturgical Hebrew in prayer, as well as the ancient Hebrew alphabet to write both sacred works in Hebrew and secular works in Yiddish, a 13th-century High German dialect. In the late 19th century, Hebrew was revived as a modern language, by the European Haskala movement, in both spoken and written forms.
The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel.

A person belonging to the worldwide group descended from the ancient Israelites (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties; Also called: Hebrew.
Follower of Judaism, the Jewish religion. The term is also used to refer to those who claim descent from the ancient Hebrews, a Semitic people of the Middle East. Today, some may recognize their ethnic heritage but not practice the religious or cultural traditions. The term came into use in medieval Europe, based on the Latin name for Judeans, the people of Judah. Prejudice against Jews is termed anti-Semitism.

A woman who is a Jew.

Headcovering worn by religious Jews, skullcap

A skullcap worn by religious Jews (especially at prayer); SYN. yarmulka, yarmelke.
Skullcap worn by orthodox Jewish males.
Or kippal; Skullcap worn by Jewish men.

The worship of Yahweh among the ancient Hebrews.

ETYM French zélote, Latin zelotes, Greek zulos. Related to Zeal.
1. One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal.
2. One absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.