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Zayin (ז)
The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia
Seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The meaning of the name is uncertain. In sound the letter is a sonant sibilant, its phonetic value corresponding to the English "z." It interchanges with the surd sibilant ("s"), and occurs only as a radical, never as a formative element. In the later period it has the numerical value 7.
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Singer, Isidore, Ph.D, Projector and Managing Editor. Entry for 'Zayin (ז)'. 1901 The Jewish Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tje/​z/zayin-x-.html. 1901.