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AYIN

Original Language • Old Testament
Ayin is the sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, named from a word meaning “eye” or “fountain.” It is a guttural consonant, has a numerical value of seventy, and begins the sixteenth section of Psalm 119.
Biblical Usage
Ayin begins each verse of the sixteenth section of Psalm 119 in the Hebrew text.