[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/המספר-שחויג-1.m4a” /]הַמִּסְפָּר שֶׁחֻיָּג To dial, in Hebrew, is לחייג[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/המספר-שחויג-2.m4a” /]. And just as the physical action of dialing is now only a figure of speech we use to mean tapping numbers rather than actually turning the dial on a rotary phone (visual aids for those of you who don’t know what a rotary phone is),…
having trouble seeing the print? גִּיחָה Check out Ulpan La-Inyan’s winter course offerings! How to say “sally” in Hebrew? But what does it mean in English? A sally is “a sudden rush forward; a leap,” according to TheFreeDictionary.com. Consider the expression, he sallied forth across the world. In Modern Hebrew, one might say, הוּא יָצָא…
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[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/להאריך-ימים-#.m4a” /]לְהַאֲרִיךְ יָמִים Like much of Modern Hebrew, the expression for to live a long life – להאריך ימים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/להאריך-ימים-#.m4a” /] (literally, to lengthen days), comes straight from the Bible. In this case, it comes from the Ten Commandments: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/להאריך-ימים-#.m4a” /]כַּבֵּד אֶת אָבִיךָ וְאֶת אִמֶּךָ לְמַעַן יַאֲרִכוּן יָמֶיךָ (שמות כ’, י”א) Honor your…
הוֹרָאוֹת listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The word תּוֹרָה listen and repeat comes from the root י.ר.ה (y.r.h) meaning instruction, so that the Torah could also be called the Book of Instruction. Here’s a video about this. This same root gives rise to the common word for instruction, הוֹרָאָה listen and repeat,…