חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לעקוב-#.m4a” /]לַעֲקֹב If you’ve got a good eye for Hebrew roots and a familiarity with Biblical figures, you might spot the connection between the פעל verb לעקוב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לעקוב-#.m4a” /] – to follow, and יעקב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לעקוב-#.m4a” /] – Jacob, right away: the root ע.ק.ב[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/לעקוב-#.m4a” /] means heel, so that when we follow someone, we’re tracing their footsteps. לעקוב…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/שילוט-#.m4a” /]שִׁלּוּט Yesterday we saw a sign – or rather, that a sign in the printed, instructional sense is שלט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/שילוט-#.m4a” /] in Hebrew. A system of signs – signage – is שילוט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/שילוט-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/שילוט-#.m4a” /]השילוט בכביש הזה לא משהו. The signage on this road is not great (not something). In English…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/שלט-#.m4a” /]סִימָן, שֶׁלֶט A sign in the spiritual sense is סימן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/שלט-#.m4a” /], for example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/שלט-#.m4a” /]חיכיתי לסימן שיהיה בסדר. I waited for a sign that it would okay. סימן also means a marker, such as that on a hiking trail: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/שלט-#.m4a” /]שימו לב לסימני הדרך. Pay attention to the path markers. (spoken to more than…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/מוקש-#.m4a” /]מוֹקֵשׁ If you’ve been hiking before in the Golan Heights, you may have seen a sign like the one pictured here: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/מוקש-#.m4a” /]מוקשים – ה(י)זהר! Mines – take caution! The word מוקש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/מוקש-#.m4a” /] first appears in the Bible, where it refers to a snare – something meant to sabotage someone along their…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/זהירות-#.m4a” /]זְהִירוּת! Hebrew’s SOS, unisex word for be careful! is !זהירות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/זהירות-#.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/זהירות-#.m4a” /]זהירות! לא להיכנס לשם! Be careful! Don’t go in there! The other way of saying be careful is to use a form of the נפעל verb להיזהר[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/זהירות-#.m4a” /] – to be careful. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/זהירות-#.m4a” /]תיזהר, דוד, יש…