For what it’s worth, my wife reiterates her point that “neshek,” not zayin, is the Hebrew word for “weapon,” and adds that it’s very, very rare to hear any of the other terms the reader mentions in modern Hebrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Massad Defends Himself:] Reference

She rests it there, as if warming herself on a cook-pot. tet zayin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 2)] Reference

Anyone who confuses zayin and tziyoan to make a silly political point is aboob.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » 2004 » October] Reference

For a moment, he watches them rise and fall, gently, with her breathing. kaf zayin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 4)] Reference

For a brief introduction and a glossary of Hebrew and Aramaic words, see the first installment. yod zayin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 3)] Reference

She waits patiently, smiling, encouraging; but her smile is dimming, her limbs growing cold, her breath thin, quick -- mem zayin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 6)] Reference

It is accepted IDF parlance to refer to “armed forces” as “kokhot mezuyanim”, the latter word deriving from the root “zayin”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Massad Defends Himself:] Reference

Noah, seemingly not having read the assigned material, mistook the pronunciation of “zayin” as “Zion”, pronounced in Hebrew “tziyon”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Massad Defends Himself:] Reference

If the word “zayin” or any derivatives is not used in modern Hebrew to mean weapon, how can this be an example of “Israeli militarised masculinity?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Massad Defends Himself:] Reference

In the interest of complete accuracy, I am obliged to correct your impression of the non-use of the word “zayin” in modern Hebrew to refer to “weapon”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Massad Defends Himself:] Reference

For example, they noted that Hebrew words with the letter zayin often resembled Aramaic words with the letter dalet: in Hebrew zachar means "to remember," whereas the Aramaic equivalent is dechar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Linguistic creationism] Reference

May 3, 2007 at 3:53 am elfinugget, ai noze whut u meen. doze restrawntz whut letz u driiiiive into demz r teh shizzle! taeks dubble + willpowrz to drive past n all u heerz is frenchifriz zayin, nooo! do not drive past! iz hard wrk!.    From Wordnik.com.  [I’M STUFFED… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

My Israeli wife–who served in the Israeli army and therefore heard plenty of discussions of weaponry–tells me that the modern Hebrew word for “weapon” is “neshek,” and that she has absolutely never heard the word “zayin” used to mean weapon in modern Hebrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Massad Defends Himself:] Reference

My Israeli wife – who served in the Israeli army and therefore heard plenty of discussions of weaponry – tells me that the modern Hebrew word for “weapon” is “neshek,” and that she has absolutely never heard the word “zayin” used to mean weapon in modern Hebrew.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Massad Defends Himself:] Reference

The seventh letter in the Hebrew alphabet, zayin, corresponds to the letter ayin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israelated - English Israel blogs] Reference

To explain this apparent discrepency one commentator argued that the tri consonantal root of Nazareth, if it was written in Hebrew (which its not) would be NZR or nun-zayin-resh.    From Wordnik.com.  [finitum non capax infiniti] Reference

Numbers ending in 15 or 16 required special handling: 15 was written tet-vav (9 + 6) and 16 tet-zayin (9 + 7) in order to avoid using the sacred tetragrammaton to represent a number ending in those quantities.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Hogarf kept kaling me zayin’ “oh lawl dis buny zo kute!”.    From Wordnik.com.  [I’S WAITIN FOR ESTER BUNNAY!!1! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

A: Well, there’s been a lot of confusion over consonants like he, waw, heh, yod, kaph, mem, and zayin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moses Expedition] Reference

It must not by any means let pass that in Shemoth Rabba; "'He smote the rock, and the waters gushed out,' Psalm 78: 20, but the word yod-zayin-vav-bet - yod signifies nothing else but blood; as it is said, 'The woman that hath an issue of blood upon her,' Leviticus 15: 20.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

He's here. lamed zayin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 5)] Reference

Alright then, Mister Rabbi, a lamb! zayin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ] Reference

'ouldn't; an' voolhardy volk, as the zayin 'is, must go their own voolhardy waay to perdition! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference

"New York - In honor Of Rav Meir Shapiro zatzal Founder of The Daf Yomi on his Yahrtzeit today zayin Cheshvan, VIN News is launching a daily Daf HaYomi column written by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vos Iz Neias - (Yiddish:What's News?)] Reference

Just zayin’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Another Endorsement for Ned Lamont] Reference

But what was 'em zayin '? ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

I nawt zayin’ nao to dat!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard to tink of ebil plan - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference