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zuz

[ zooz ]

noun

plural zuzim
  1. an ancient Hebrew silver coin, the fourth part of a silver shekel.


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Origin of zuz1

First recorded in 1685–95; from Hebrew ū, from Aramaic ū, from Akkadian ū “half, division,” from ū “to divide”
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He meets Madeline, almost 18, who shows him a warm place to sleep, along with Coco, an 11-year-old with the vocabulary of a truck driver, and Zuz, who does not speak.

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Zuz, zōōz, n. a coin or money of account in New Testament times.

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To this day, the standard Orthodox ketubah still contains language requiring a divorced man to pay his ex-wife “200 silver zuz.”

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The Upper Engadine is not mentioned in authentic documents till 1139, the bishop of Coire being then the great lord, and, from the 13th century, having as his bailiffs the family of Planta, the original seat of which was at Zuz.

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If the witness said, “he told me that I am indebted to him”—“such a man told me that he is indebted to him”—he has said nothing, till he shall say, “he acknowledged in our presence that he owed him 200 zuz.”

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