having trouble seeing the print? מְהַבְהֵב Our Hebrew class starts Sunday! 10 spots available per course. Sign up now! P.S. from yesterday’s dose As a post-script to yesterday’s entry on worshiping, the Aramaic root ס.ג.ד (s.g.d) meaning to bow down appears in other Semitic languages as well, most notably in Arabic word for Mosque – مسجد (MAHS-jid)…
לְהַפְשִׁיל אֶת הַשַּׁרְווּלִים listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? When there’s work to do, we call it “rolling up our sleeves” to “get our hands dirty,” in English. The Hebrew expression for rolling up (the) sleeves is לְהַפְשִׁיל אֶת הַשַּׁרְווּלִים listen and repeat, where להפשיל means to roll up or to roll back (source in Mishnaic Hebrew, probably from Aramaic) and שַׁרְווּל listen…
יציאה The Hebrew root י.צ.א (y.ts.a) carries the concept of leaving or exiting. יְצִיאָה (ye-tsee-AH) most often refers to an exit, such as in this photo: But יציאה also refers to an exodus, such as יְצִיאַת מִצְרָיִם (ye-tsee-AHT meets-RAH-yeem – Egypt). Likewise, those who exited a particular land on their way to the…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/עם-כל-הכבוד-#.m4a” /]עִם כָּל הַכָּבוֹד You may know the congratulatory Hebrew phrase, כל הכבוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/עם-כל-הכבוד-#.m4a” /] – literally, all the respect (to you). If so, the expression in this post should be easy for you to adopt: עם כל הכבוד[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/עם-כל-הכבוד-#.m4a” /] – with all (due) respect. For example, Talia’s mother might say to her somewhat facetiously:…
זְמִינוּת, פְּנִיּוּת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/זמינות-1.mp3″ /] The Hebrew root ז.מ.נ (z.m.n) meaning time finds itself in a variety of verbal applications. One of these is the word for available – זמין[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/זמינות-2.mp3″ /] in the masculine, and זמינה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/זמינות-3.mp3″ /] in the feminine. For example, you might text (a woman): [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/זמינות-4.mp3″ /]את זמינה? אפשר להתקשר? Are you…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/חלומי-#.m4a” /]חֲלוֹמִי The Hebrew word for dream is חלום[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/חלומי-#.m4a” /]. Add an ee sound to the end of the word and we get the adjective dreamy or dreamlike – חלומי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/חלומי-#.m4a” /]: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/חלומי-#.m4a” /]נרות החנוכה בחצרות ירושלים הם מראה חלומי. Hanukkah candles in Jerusalem courtyards are a dreamy sight. Or, add eet – ית-[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/חלומי-#.m4a” /]…