JEWRY.This old form occurs frequently in the older versions, but rarely in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] . In Dan_5:13 it stands for Judah; In Luk_23:5, Joh_7:1 and occasionally in the Apocr. [Note: Apocrypha, Apocryphal.] for Judæa.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
(See JUDEA.)
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Jew'ry. (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 ? Dan_5:13. Jewry comes to us through the Norman-French, and is of frequent occurrence in Old English.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
jū?ri, jōō?ri: In Dan_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, Luk_23:5; Joh_7:1, where the Revised Version (British and American) has correctly ?Judaea? (Ioudaı́a) (which see).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Jewry
(יְהוּד, Yehud', Chald., Dan_5:13, last clause; Judaea in Ezr_5:8; elsewhere Judah; Ι᾿ουδαῖα, Luk_23:5; Joh_7:1; elsewhere Judah), the nation of the Jews, i.e. the kingdom of JUDAH, later JUDAEA. Jewry also occurs frequently in the A.V. of the Apocrypha (1Es_1:32; 1Es_2:4; 1Es_4:49; 1Es_5:7-8; 1Es_5:57; 1Es_6:1; 1Es_8:81; 1Es_9:3; Bel 33; 2Ma_10:24).
Jews.
SEE JEW.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.