Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An ancient Hebrew silver coin.
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- noun An ancient
Hebrew silver coin , one quarter of ashekel .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's got lots of synthy zuz-zuz-zuz and electro-grooves, and despite a co-star list that D.W. Griffith would be proud of, the production seems too monogamous when a little infidelity might have jazzed things up a bit.
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It's got lots of synthy zuz-zuz-zuz and electro-grooves, and despite a co-star list that D.W. Griffith would be proud of, the production seems too monogamous when a little infidelity might have jazzed things up a bit.
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Ikkar ketubbah (the “main” sum of the ketubbah): to pay his wife the sum of 200 zuz (if she was a virgin when they married) or 100 zuz (if she was not a virgin, e.g. if she was a widow or divorcée), in the event that he divorces her.
Marriage. 2009
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He said to him [R. Akiva]: “Rabbi, shall I give one such as this four hundred zuz?”
Akiva, Rabbi. 2009
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It's got lots of synthy zuz-zuz-zuz and electro-grooves, and despite a co-star list that D.W. Griffith would be proud of, the production seems too monogamous when a little infidelity might have jazzed things up a bit.
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It once happened that a man uncovered the head of a woman in the marketplace, she came before R. Akiva, and he obligated him to give her four hundred zuz [denarri; a denarius was half a biblical shekel].
Akiva, Rabbi. 2009
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In a similar vein it is said of her sons that “one of them could carry two sides of a huge ox which cost one thousand zuz and walk with them, heel to toe [up the altar ramp to the altar] …” (BT Sukkah 52b).
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The obligation of the father to provide a minimum dowry (fifty zuz) compensated her for the loss of inheritance (Mishnah Ketubbot 6: 5).
Legal-Religious Status of the Married Woman. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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But now a penny and zuz are the same: "They call pence, in the language of the Gemara, zuzim."
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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The former knot you may thus untie: that zuz, among the Jews, is called also
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
oroboros commented on the word zuz
1. A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost - in use among orthodox Hebrews.
2. An ancient silver coin = 1/4 of a shekel.
According to Chris Cole in Wordplay, the longest (with one other, q.v., ziz) "uncommon word" palindrome beginning with letter 'z'.
June 2, 2008