how to say “emergency” in Hebrew
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חֵרוּם
The Hebrew word for emergency is חֵרוּם. It first appears in recorded Hebrew in the Talmud, in the expression:
בִּשְׁעַת חֵרוּם
at a time of emergency
Other Hebrew expressions used regularly today are:
מַצָּב חֵרוּם
an emergency situation
בְּמִקְרֶה חירום
in case of emergency
and
מִסְפַּר חירום
emergency number
Here’s a page I put together with emergency phone numbers in Israel, along with other useful expressions. This page was given out at AACI’s Fourth of July event in 2011.
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