how to say “race” in Hebrew
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מֵרוּץ, גֶּזַע
The English word race has two meanings: there’s the race in which people contend, and there’s race as a subdivision of humanity.
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מֵרוּץ (meh-ROOTS) is the Hebrew word for the race in which contestants might run. מרוץ comes from the root ר.ו.צ (r.w.ts) meaning running.
גֶּזַע (GHEH-zah), on the other hand, refers to the anthropological phenomenon of a group of people. But the word also refers to a tree trunk, which is its original meaning in Biblical Hebrew. And it makes sense – the גזע of a tree is close to the tree’s source, while the גזע of a person indicates his/her ethnic source.
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