how to say “to contain” in Hebrew
having trouble seeing the print? תְּקוּפָה The Hebrew word for period of time or era is תְּקוּפָה I’ve known this for a long time, but not its full meaning – until I just researched it to present it to you. The word appears in the Bible, but its meaning has become less and less specific over the generations. In…
having trouble seeing the print? אוֹפְּטִימָלִי, מֵיטָבִי Check out our spring coursesin Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Raanana, Efrat and Ramat Beit Shemesh The word meaning optimal you’re most likely to hear in Spoken Hebrew is אוֹפְּטִימָלִי (ohp-tee-MAH-lee). But the Israeli media is control of much of public opinion as well as public language, and today I saw an article in a major…
שֶׁטַח Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for territory is the same as that for area in the geometric sense: שֶׁטַח . For example: כַּמָּה מֶטְרִים מְרֻבָּעִים שֶׁטַח הַדִּירָה? How many square meters is the apartment? and הֵם גָּרִים בַּשְּׁטָחִים. They live in the territories. שטח…
having trouble seeing the print? לִגְרוֹם This fall, we’re offering opportunities to learn to speak Hebrew, in many Anglo communities in Israel and online. Check out our fall classes, keeping in mind that the deadlines to save 200 shekels is September 23 for most branches. Corrections on yesterday’s entry: The Hebrew sentence…
לִנְכוֹחַ To bear witness in the legal sense is לְהָעִיד. It’s a technical term. But to be witness to an event, such as those that took place in 1967, is to overpowered by their magic. It’s to be present at such an event – לִנְכוֹח (leen-KHOH-ahkh). I was not yet born in 1967,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתחנן-1.m4a” /]אֲנִי מִתְחַנֵּן! The Hebrew word for to beg or to plead – להתחנן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתחנן-2.m4a” /] – goes all the way back to Biblical times. In fact, it appears in the title of last week’s Torah portion – ואתחנן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתחנן-3.m4a” /] – and I pleaded. Here’s an example in Modern Hebrew: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/להתחנן-4.m4a” /]אמא, אני מתחננת, תקני לנו…