Zayin

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Zayin is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally associated with the "z" sound and rich symbolic meanings in Jewish mysticism and scripture.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN 1
Phoenician letter Zayin 1
Zayin canonical 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Hebrew letter
alphabet Hebrew alphabet
appearsInText Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Jewish liturgy
rabbinic literature
associatedField Kabbalah
surface form: Jewish mysticism

Kabbalah
associatedTradition Judaism
associatedWithConcept spiritual warfare
struggle
sustenance
sword
weapon
associatedWithSephirahInSomeKabbalisticSystems Netzach
belongsToUnicodeBlock Hebrew
category Semitic letter
directionOfWriting right-to-left
hasAcrosticUseInBook Lamentations
surface form: Book of Lamentations

Book of Proverbs
Psalms
surface form: Book of Psalms
hasFinalForm no
hasHistoricalOrigin Zayin self-linksurface differs
surface form: Phoenician letter Zayin
hasISO15924Code Hebr
hasNameInHebrew ז
hasSectionInPsalm119 Zayin self-linksurface differs
surface form: Zayin stanza
hasStrokeOrderTradition Hebrew calligraphy
hasTraditionalSymbolism crown
kingliness
hasUnicodeCodePoint U+05D6
hasUnicodeName Zayin self-linksurface differs
surface form: HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
isConsonant true
isVowel false
numericValueInGematria 7
positionInAlphabet 7
relatedLetterInGreek Zeta
relatedLetterInLatin Z
representsNumberInHebrewNumerals 7
representsSound /z/
scriptType consonantLetter
standardTransliteration z
transliteration zayin
usedInAcrosticPsalm Psalm 119
usedInLanguage Hebrew
Yiddish
usedInNumeralSystem Hebrew numerals
usedInReligiousContext Kabbalistic meditation
Torah study
writingSystem Abjad

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hebrew alphabet hasLetter Zayin
Zayin hasSectionInPsalm119 Zayin self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Zayin stanza
Zayin hasUnicodeName Zayin self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: HEBREW LETTER ZAYIN
Zayin hasHistoricalOrigin Zayin self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Phoenician letter Zayin