The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

זוּז‏ n.m. a weight (half shekel)

a weight (half shekel) Com^-OA^-BA. coin, drachma Palmyrene, JPAEpig, Gal, PTA, Syr, JBA, Man.

From Akkadian zūzu, "half shekel", but note that in the cited JLA passage it renders MT "quarter-shekel".

Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 173b; DJBA: 402a; Jastrow: 385; Levy Ch-W: 1:215; Tal Sam: 225; DNWSI: 308; DJA: 46b; Cook,Qumran: 70;

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šbzyz (šaḇzēz) n.m. sapphire