having trouble seeing the print? לְאַיֵּשׁ highly recommended reference for further vocabulary growth If you read the title of this post and didn’t quite understand what I’m getting it, you’re probably not the only one. The word לְאַיֵּשׁ ( ) doesn’t really have a direct translation into English. The best I could come up with is to man and to staff,…
having trouble seeing the print? לַעֲבוֹר דִּירָה In English, we talk about moving residence from one place to another. The Hebrew word for residence is דִּירָה ( ) – which is also the word for apartment or flat. But to move is literally, לָזוּז ( ), and that’s not what we say in Hebrew. The Hebrew expression…
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having trouble seeing the print? חִלּוֹנִי, חִלּוֹנִית highly recommended reference for further vocabulary growth In yesterday’s dose of Hebrew, we saw the root for profane or not sacred is ח.ל.ל (kh.l.l). This is the root of the Modern-Hebrew term referring to someone or something secular or non-religious – חִלּוֹנִי ( ) in the masculine and חִלּוֹנִית ( ) in the feminine. For example: תֵּל…
having trouble seeing the print? חוֹל Last week, I wrote a post on the Hebrew term for mermaid and how that relates to the name of the Israeli coastal town, בַּת יָם ( ) – Bat Yam. Here’s a post about sand, which inspired the name for Bat Yam’s next-door neighbor town, חוֹלוֹן ( ). The Hebrew…
having trouble seeing the print? שָׁנוּן, שְׁנוּנָה highly recommended for further vocabulary growth If you’re familiar with Jewish prayer in its original Hebrew, you probably know the phrase וְשִׁנַּנְתָּם לְבָנֶיךָ ( ) – and you shall teach them to your children. The root of ושננתם ( ) is שׁ.נ.נ (sh.n.n) meaning learning by repetition. It’s also the…
having trouble seeing the print? לַחְפּוֹר highly recommended for further vocabulary growth The Ancient- as well as Modern-Hebrew word for to dig is לַחְפּוֹר ( ), of the root ח.פ.ר (kh.p.r) and the active-simple פָּעַל verb form. For example: יִצְחָק חָפַר בְּאֵרוֹת בַּנֶּגֶב. Isaac dug wells in the Negev (southern desert portion of Israel). The word…
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having trouble seeing the print? אֶהְיֶה יוֹתֵר חָכָם, אֶהְיֶה יוֹתֵר חֲכָמָה “When will the videos be ready?” “I’ll know better once I manage to find all the right images.” In Hebrew, instead of saying I’ll know better, we say, אֶהְיֶה יוֹתֵר חָכָם when a male is speaking and אֶהְיֶה יוֹתֵר חֲכָמָה when a female is speaking. Broken…
having trouble seeing the print? בַּת יָם, בְּתוּלַת יָם highly recommended for further vocabulary growth There’s a city just south of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, nicely situated on the coast, called Bat Yam – in Hebrew, בַּת יָם ( ). The name means literally, daughter of (the) sea. When those sitting in the local council gave the…
תִּינוֹק, תִּינוֹקֶת The Hebrew word for baby boy is תִּינוֹק ( ), while the word for baby girl is תִּינוֹקֶת ( ). When speaking of multiple babies, it’s תִּינוֹקוֹת ( ), regardless of gender. These words derive from the root י.נ.ק (y.n.k), which means nursing. They first appear in Mishnaic Hebrew. For example, I wish to congratulate my friends, my…