חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material 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!
אַרְיֶה, לָבִיא If you’ve toured northern Israel, you may have come across a place called Kibbutz Lavi – קִבּוּץ לָבִיא The word לָבִיא, in Modern Hebrew, is a flowery term for lion – whereas אַרְיֶהis the common word: יֵשׁ אֲרָיוֹת בְּאַפְרִיקָה. There are lions in Africa. Adding a feminine suffix to לביא, we get…
גִּלּוּי 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 , an active-intensive verb of the root ג.ל.ה (g.l.h). For example: הִיא גִּלְּתָה לִי אֶת הַסּוֹד. She revealed the…
רֶגֶשׁ עִקָּרִי Can’t read Hebrew yet? רֶגֶשׁ means emotion. עִקָּרִי means prime, main or primary. רֶגֶשׁ עִקָּרִי is primary emotion or primary feeling. הָרֶגֶשׁ הָעִקָּרִי שֶׁלִּי עַכְשָׁו הוּא כַּעַס. My primary emotion now is anger. It’s starting to give way to sadness.
קֶשֶׁר עַיִן Can’t read Hebrew yet? So, we’ve seen that to contact someone is לִיצוֹר קֶשֶׁר . Eye contact in Hebrew, literally, eye connection, is קֶשֶׁר עַיִן . Applying both terms, we get: יָצַרְתִּי אִתָּהּ קֶשֶׁר עַיִן. I made eye contact with her.
צְרוּ קֶשֶׁר 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 . For example: יָצַרְתִּי אִתָּם קֶשֶׁר. I contacted them. …
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material 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!
תֹּכֶן 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 . Then there’s content in the abstract sense, such as the content of a book, or the content or substance of a…
מְכָל, תְּכוּלָה Can’t read Hebrew yet? We saw that the Hebrew word for to contain is לְהָכִיל of the root כ.ו.ל (k.w.l) meaning all. Likewise, a container is a מְכָל (erroneously yet very commonly written and pronounced as מֵכָל or מֵיכָל ). The word also refers to the kind of container called a tank, as in: יֵשׁ…
לְהָכִיל Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to contain is לְהָכִיל , 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. and הוּא…
חֲטִיפָה 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 . It comes from the root ח.ט.פ (kh.t.p), which means grabbing or snatching. We saw this root in a happier context a few weeks…