English words from Hebrew
- Yom HaKippurimYom Kippur
- Yom HaShoahHolocaust Remembrance Day, a national memorial day in Israel on the 27th of Nisan (April or May).
- Yom KippurA particular Jewish holiday, the day of atonement, falling on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei.
- Yom TeruahRosh Hashanah (the first day of Tishrei / Tishri, the first month of the civil year and seventh month of the religious year in the Hebrew calendar)
- yom tovA major religious holiday, on which a certain set of rules and prohibitions applies.
- ZadkielThe archangel of freedom, benevolence and mercy, in Jewish and Christian angelology.
- ZAKAA series of Israeli disaster response teams.
- ZarphaticAn extinct Romance language, formerly spoken among the French Jews of northern France and in parts of west-central Germany.
- zavA state of ritual impurity arising from abnormal seminal discharge by the male.
- zayinThe seventh letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- ZebadiahOne of several minor characters in the Old Testament. (biblical character)
- ZebulAn officer of Abimelech. (biblical character)
- zechutfortunate opportunity, privilege
- ZelophehadA male given name from Hebrew.
- zeroaThe bone of a lamb shank, laid on a platter as one of five symbolic foods at Passover.
- zeroahThe Messiah, strength of God, or spirit of sacrifice.
- zimrahA table song sung at the Shabbat dinner table on Friday night.
- zimunA blessing made before Birkat Hamazon, calling together those who have eaten.
- zimzumThe self-imposed "withdrawal" of a part of God to enable the creation of the universe, as described by Isaac Luria.
- zizA giant bird resembling a griffin in Jewish mythology.
- ZK"LEnglish rendering of a Hebrew posthumous honorific applied to martyrs
- Z"LEnglish rendering of a common Hebrew posthumous honorific.
- ZT"LEnglish rendering of a Hebrew posthumous honorific, usually applied to deceased rabbis or other holy figures
- zuzAn ancient Hebrew silver coin, one quarter of a shekel.