how to say “fighter” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger May 8, 2019August 9, 2022

לוֹחֵם

Hebrew’s word for warrior or fighter is לוחם
when referring to a male and לוחמת
when referring to a female. Israelis use the term to distinguish combat soldiers from non-combat soldiers, whom they call (not always with admiration) jobniks:

הוא היה בצבא לוחם או ג’ובניק?

In the army, was he a fighter or a jobnik?

You might also hear the term לוחם קרבי
– combat fighter or simply קרבי
.

You may have noticed that the root of לוחם is the same as the word for bread – לחם
. That’s because war – מלחמה
– was seen in biblical times as an act of eating one’s enemy. לחם, in Biblical Hebrew, means food in the general sense.

Today is יום הזיכרון
– Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen. Here’s a song that has won over the hearts of the IDF soldiers: כאב של לוחמים
– The Pain of Fighters, by Idan Amedi.

how to say “on the house” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger July 29, 2020July 29, 2020

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/על-חשבון-הבית-#.m4a” /]עַל חֶשְׁבּוֹן הַבַּיִת In English we just say on the house to invite someone to partake in goods free of charge. Hebrew gets more specific, with על חשבון הבית[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/על-חשבון-הבית-#.m4a” /] – literally, on the house’s account. For example [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/על-חשבון-הבית-#.m4a” /]צ’ייסרים היום על חשבון הבית! Chasers on the house today! חשבון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/על-חשבון-הבית-#.m4a” /] means…

how do you say “transparent” in Hebrew?

ByAmi Steinberger June 22, 2010February 10, 2021

שקוף Today I was on the phone when all of a sudden a quite powerful gust of wind came and slammed my office/bedroom door shut and shattering all the glass, yielding this: The spots on the door are not stains; rather, they are specs of dust on my phone camera’s lens, which I…

how to say “a falafel” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger April 2, 2017October 21, 2018

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/מנה-1.m4a” /]מָנָה פָלָאפֶל Hebrew has no word for a. That’s why you might come across a native Hebrew speaker saying something like “do you have car?” And that’s if they know the word do, which also doesn’t exist in Hebrew. If you’re ordering a falafel in English, you’d probably say “I’d like a falafel.” But to do so…

make this week’s Hebrew yours – REVIEW this week’s doses!

ByAmi Steinberger July 11, 2014November 20, 2024

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!

how to say “let me know” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger March 2, 2021February 25, 2021

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/תעדכן-אותי-#.m4a” /]תְּעַדְכֵּן אוֹתִי In English, when we want someone to update us about something, say, the date of a party or whether plane tickets are available, we might say let me know or keep me posted. In Hebrew, we use a future-tense form of לעדכן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/תעדכן-אותי-#.m4a” /] – to update. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/תעדכן-אותי-#.m4a”…

how to say “leadership” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger July 10, 2014October 24, 2018

מַנְהִיגוּת Can’t read Hebrew yet? In the Torah portion to be read this Shabbat by Jews around the world, Moses is informed that he won’t be leading the People of Israel into the promised land. His response, defining his role as the leader, gets me every year: יִפְקֹד ה’ אֱ-לֹהֵי…

לוֹחֵם

Hebrew’s word for warrior or fighter is לוחם when referring to a male and לוחמת when referring to a female. Israelis use the term to distinguish combat soldiers from non-combat soldiers, whom they call (not always with admiration) jobniks:

הוא היה בצבא לוחם או ג’ובניק?

In the army, was he a fighter or a jobnik?

You might also hear the term לוחם קרבי – combat fighter or simply קרבי.

You may have noticed that the root of לוחם is the same as the word for bread – לחם. That’s because war – מלחמה – was seen in biblical times as an act of eating one’s enemy. לחם, in Biblical Hebrew, means food in the general sense.

Today is יום הזיכרון – Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen. Here’s a song that has won over the hearts of the IDF soldiers: כאב של לוחמים – The Pain of Fighters, by Idan Amedi.

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Hebrew’s word for warrior or fighter is לוחם
when referring to a male and לוחמת
when referring to a female. Israelis use the term to distinguish combat soldiers from non-combat soldiers, whom they call (not always with admiration) jobniks:

You might also hear the term לוחם קרבי
– combat fighter or simply קרבי
.

You may have noticed that the root of לוחם is the same as the word for bread – לחם
. That’s because war – מלחמה
– was seen in biblical times as an act of eating one’s enemy. לחם, in Biblical Hebrew, means food in the general sense.

Today is יום הזיכרון
– Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen. Here’s a song that has won over the hearts of the IDF soldiers: כאב של לוחמים
– The Pain of Fighters, by Idan Amedi.