חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend! listen and repeat
אַרְיֶה, לָבִיא listen and repeat If you’ve toured northern Israel, you may have come across a place called Kibbutz Lavi – קִבּוּץ לָבִיא listen and repeat. The word לָבִיא listen and repeat, in Modern Hebrew, is a flowery term for lion – whereas אַרְיֶה listen and repeat is the common word: יֵשׁ אֲרָיוֹת בְּאַפְרִיקָה. There are lions in…
גִּלּוּי listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Last summer I did a video on the Hebrew expression for Columbus discovered America. The word for to discover is the same as that for to reveal: לְגַלּוֹת listen and repeat, an active-intensive verb of the root ג.ל.ה (g.l.h). For example: הִיא גִּלְּתָה לִי אֶת…
רֶגֶשׁ עִקָּרִי listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? רֶגֶשׁ listen and repeat means emotion. עִקָּרִי listen and repeat means prime, main or primary. רֶגֶשׁ עִקָּרִי listen and repeat is primary emotion or primary feeling. הָרֶגֶשׁ הָעִקָּרִי שֶׁלִּי עַכְשָׁו הוּא כַּעַס. My primary emotion now is anger. listen It’s starting to give way to sadness.
קֶשֶׁר עַיִן listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? So, we’ve seen that to contact someone is לִיצוֹר קֶשֶׁר listen and repeat. Eye contact in Hebrew, literally, eye connection, is קֶשֶׁר עַיִן listen and repeat. Applying both terms, we get: יָצַרְתִּי אִתָּהּ קֶשֶׁר עַיִן. I made eye contact with her. listen
צְרוּ קֶשֶׁר listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Unlike English, Hebrew doesn’t have one single word to mean to contact. Rather, we use an expression that means to create connection… which is essentially what contacting a person accomplishes. The expression is לִיצוֹר קֶשֶׁר listen and repeat. For example: יָצַרְתִּי אִתָּם קֶשֶׁר. I…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend! listen and repeat
תֹּכֶן listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? We saw the word for contents referring to that which fills a physical space, such as a stack of plates sitting inside a box. That word is תְּכוּלָה listen and repeat. Then there’s content in the abstract sense, such as the content of a book, or the…
מְכָל, תְּכוּלָה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? We saw that the Hebrew word for to contain is לְהָכִיל listen and repeat of the root כ.ו.ל (k.w.l) meaning all. Likewise, a container is a מְכָל listen and repeat (erroneously yet very commonly written and pronounced as מֵכָל or מֵיכָל listen and repeat). The word also refers to the kind of container called a…
לְהָכִיל listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to contain is לְהָכִיל listen and repeat, an active-causative verb of the root כ.ו.ל (k.w.l) meaning all: to contain is to have the ability to include all different things inside oneself. For example: מוּצָר זֶה מֵכִיל גְּלוּטֶן. This product contains gluten. listen …
חֲטִיפָה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? If you’d like to follow the Hebrew news, one of the key words you’ll need to know these days is the one for a kidnapping – חֲטִיפָה listen and repeat. It comes from the root ח.ט.פ (kh.t.p), which means grabbing or snatching. We saw this root in a happier context…