how to say “to refuse” in Hebrew
הַקְּהִלִּיָּה הַבֵּינְלְאֻמִּית listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The common Modern Hebrew word for community is קְהִלָּה listen and repeat. This word appears in Biblical Hebrew, but there the more common word is קָהָל listen and repeat or עֵדָה listen and repeat. Now קהילה refers to a community of people, linked by common interests…
כְּרִיכָה In Egypt and Iran, the masses are demonstrating against Israel. At least one person in Tehran (the president), is vowing that the establishment of a Palestinian state will be the first step towards making the entire “Palestine” a Muslim state. As for the Jews inhabiting their native land… well, Ahmadinejad’s purported solution…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להגדיר-#.m4a” /]לְהַגְדִּיר To define something is to show what it is and what it isn’t, where it begins and where it ends. For example, בית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להגדיר-#.m4a” /] – house is a place of living, but it is not a workplace. The Hebrew word for to define is להגדיר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/להגדיר-#.m4a” /], a הפעיל verb calling upon…
לפקוח In English, we use the word open for virtually anything we’re opening. In Hebrew, there’s a special word for opening eyes. Whereas לִפְתּוֹח (leef-TOH-akh) is to open in the general sense – such as פָּתַחְתִּי אֶת הַבַּקְבּוּק (pah-TAKH-tee et hah-bahk-BOOK) – I opened the bottle; לִפְקוֹח (leef-KOH-akh) means to open eyes, as in פָּקַחְתִּי…
להתרענן If you’re having trouble seeing the vowels, enlarge the display on your monitor. Some of the readers of this blog live in Raanana – רַעֲנָנָה. I spent a year living there as well. That year, when I was 14 years old, I decided that I would make Israel my home – if…