עִירוֹנִי listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for city, going back to the earliest books in Bible, is עִיר listen and repeat. Already in Mishnaic times, Hebrew began employing עיר to describe the then-novel concepts of urban and municipal – as well as an urbanite (city dweller), rendering the word עִירוֹנִי listen and…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ממצא-#.m4a” /]מִמְצָא The Hebrew word למצוא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ממצא-#.m4a” /], a simple פעל verb, means to find. That which is found or discovered – a finding – is ממצא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ממצא-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ממצא-#.m4a” /]בזכות החפירות התגלו בירושלים ממצאים עוצרי נשימה. Thanks to the digs, breathtaking findings were discovered in Jerusalem. Note that ממצא is different from…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כישוף-1.m4a” /]כִּשּׁוּף Whereas a not-very-nice term in English to describe a not-very-nice woman likens her to a dog, one such term in Hebrew likens her to a witch – מכשפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כישוף-2.m4a” /] (more commonly pronounced with an ah vowel at the beginning of the word – מַכשפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כישוף-3.m4a” /]). The root of מכשפה is כ.ש.פ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/כישוף-4.m4a” /],…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהַפְצִיר Check out our world-class conversational Hebrew program: LOCAL courses in Israel DISTANCE courses online To beg, in Hebrew, is לְהִתְחַנֵּן . But there’s a certain type of begging that doesn’t let up. To beg in such a manner is לְהַפְצִיר . This word is used, albeit in a different verb form, in Biblical Hebrew,…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לגלות-#.m4a” /]לְגַלּוֹת לגלות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לגלות-#.m4a” /] means to reveal: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לגלות-#.m4a” /]אל תגלה לה את הסוד. Don’t tell her (reveal to her) the secret. (spoken to a male) It also means to discover: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לגלות-#.m4a” /]קולומבוס גילה את אמריקה? Columbus discovered America? לגלות comes from the root ג.ל.ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לגלות-#.m4a” /] and is a פיעל verb. Likewise, a revelation or discovery…
having trouble seeing the print? לְהִתְעַלֵּף Learn to speak Hebrew with us: LOCAL courses in Israel DISTANCE courses online this week’s video dose of Hebrew! The Modern-Hebrew word for to faint is לְהִתְעַלֵּף , a reflexive-intensive הִתְפַּעֵל verb of the root ע.ל.פ (a.l.p). For example: הִיא הִתְעַלְּפָה בְּאֶמְצַע הָרְחוֹב. She fainted in the middle of the street. …