Crossword-Solution: VAV 3 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And to give a full explanation of this verse, it is in my opinion necessary to say that ohzi (Ayin with qamats Zayin with dagesh Yod) is not equivalent to uzi (Ayin with qubuts Zayin with dagesh Yod nor vezimrat (Vav Zayin Mem Resh Tav) to vezimrati (Vav Zayin Mem Resh Tav Yod), but that ohzi (Ayin with qamats Zayin with dagesh Yod) is a substantive (without a possessive suffix, but provided with a paragogic "yod"), as in Psalm cxxiii.

Jacob ben Yakar; but my master[118] reads (He Vav Samech Qof, Samech Yod Dalet, Vav): the lime of the furnace melted as a result of the great heat.

The following, recited on the Fast of gedaliah (az terem nimteju (Alef zayin, Mem resh Final_Mem, Nun mem Tav Het Vav)), may serve as an example.

What has been said of the first specimen quoted applies equally to the next (Hashem Elohei Hatzevaot Bore Baolionim (Yod Yod, Alef Lamed He Yod, He Tsadi Bet Alef Vav Tav, Bet Vav Resh Alef, Bet Ayin Lamed Yod Vav Nun Yod Final_Mem)), for the eve of the Day of Atonement.

Constantinople, 33d, where one must read, uleven bat (Vav Lamed Bet Final_Nun, Bet Tav) not velajen biti (Vav Lamed Kaf Final_Nun, Bet Tav Yod) - See Zunz, Zur Geschichte, p.567, and Berliner, Hebraische Bibliographie, XI; also, Monatsschrift, XXI.