how to say “gathering” in Hebrew

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סימן-קריאה-1.m4a” /]סִימַן קְרִיאָה The Hebrew term for exclamation point or exclamation mark is סימן קריאה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סימן-קריאה-1.m4a” /] – literally, mark of calling out. The term harks back to the original meaning of the simple verb לקרוא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סימן-קריאה-2.m4a” /] – to call out. The word took on the meaning of to read when those few scholars who were literate would read texts out loud…

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סובלנות-1.m4a” /]סַבְלָנוּת, סוֹבְלָנוּת Yesterday we saw the two very closely related words, סיכון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סובלנות-2.m4a” /] – risk and סכנה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סובלנות-3.m4a” /] – danger. We saw that in their adjective forms of dangerous and risky, they have the same word: מסוכן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סובלנות-4.m4a” /]. Another pair of words that are nearly identical is סבלנות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/סובלנות-5.m4a” /] and סובלנות[audioclip…