[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/מוזיאון-#.m4a” /]מוּזֵאוֹן This Hebrew word is simple enough for English speakers to grasp easily: מוזיאון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/מוזיאון-#.m4a” /] for museum. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/מוזיאון-#.m4a” /]אני לא יודע איפה המוזיאון, אני לא מקומי. I (a male) don’t know where the museum is, I’m not a local. Note the -yon ending. This is a common ending for types of…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/יבשת-1.m4a” /]יַבֶּשֶׁת The Hebrew word for dry is יבש[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/יבשת-2.m4a” /]. So dry land is יבשה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/יבשת-3.m4a” /], as in this partial Biblical verse: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/יבשת-4.m4a” /]וּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל הָלְכוּ בַיַּבָּשָׁה בְּתוֹךְ הַיָּם. (שמות י”ד) And the Children of Israel walked on the dry land inside the sea. (Exodus 14) In Biblical Hebrew, יבשה is used synonymously with…
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גֵּרוּשִׁין listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to expel or to banish is the (not surprisingly) active-intensive verb לְגָרֵשׁ listen and repeat. It’s the same word used already in Biblical Hebrew for the unfortunate circumstance where a man asks his wife to leave – when he divorces her. Since today…