[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להצטייד-1.m4a” /]נָא לְהִצְטַיֵּד Last week, we saw the Hebrew term for running shoes – נעלי ריצה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להצטייד-2.m4a” /], or more commonly, נעלי ספורט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/להצטייד-3.m4a” /]. Now, suppose you’re a youth-group counselor, and you’re taking your group of young teens on an overnight field trip. It’s the fall, so you want to make sure they all come prepared with warm clothing….
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/קוד-קידה-#.m4a” /]קוֹד קִידָּה Just like Eskimos have about 70 words for snow, Biblical Hebrew has several words for bowing – back then, it was something people did all the time, in many different forms. A type of bowing that doesn’t involve stretching oneself out on the ground is קידה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/קוד-קידה-#.m4a” /], from the simple verb לקוד[audioclip…
קָהָל listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for audience is quite an ancient one, as Moses would address the audience – הַקָּהָל listen and repeat – of the wandering People of Israel for forty years in the desert. A modern example: הַקָּהָל מַקְשִׁיב. The audience is listening. listen The…
לְעַכֵּל listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The basic Hebrew word for to eat is לֶאֱכוֹל listen and repeat, of the root א.כ.ל (a.k.l). A word of similar meaning is to digest – לְעַכֵּל listen and repeat, an active-intensive verb of the similar root ע.כ.ל (a.k.l). In Hebrew, it is used both…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מתח-1.m4a” /]מֶתַח The word מתח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מתח-1.m4a” /] means literally tension, while מתוח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מתח-2.m4a” /] means tense. But it also means suspense, as in סרטי מתח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מתח-3.m4a” /] – suspense films, as well as: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/מתח-4.m4a” /]אל תשאירו אותי במתח! Don’t leave me in suspense! מתח also has a meaning in physics – voltage.