[See JOD.] Name of the tenth (the smallest) letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
1735. Lyons, Scholars Instr. (1757), 25. Those Verbs which have Vau Consonant, or Yod Consonant for the second Radical.
1769. Parkhurst, Grk. Eng. Lexicon N. T. (1794), 385/2. An Iota, Jod, or Yod.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, I. II. viii. 143. They remembered … what He had said about the permanence of every yod and horn of a letter in the Law.
