Tzvi

Meaning of Tzvi

Tzvi, whispered through the teeth like a silver arrow—ts-vee—traces its antlered silhouette back to Hebrew scripture, where the word means “gazelle” and conjures the quick-footed grace that flickers across desert dawn, yet in modern usage it has settled, cool as moonlit ink, into the given name of scholars, dreamers, and quiet rebels alike; he carries with him the imagery of Psalmic verses in which the Land of Israel is called Eretz Ha-Tzvi, “the Land of the Swift Deer,” a promise of beauty that cannot be caged, while in another distant landscape the mind drifts to Nara’s moss-soft temples, where sacred deer bow like calligraphic strokes against stone lanterns, and the resonance between Hebrew gazelle and Japanese shika paints a cross-cultural scroll of nimbleness, vigilance, and understated power.

Pronunciation

Hebrew

• Pronunced as ts-vee (/tsvi/)

• Zvi
• Zevi