how to say “food for thought” in Hebrew
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נְקֻדָּה לְמַחְשָׁבָה
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| by Darwin Bell |
Many expressions in English have direct translations in Hebrew… as well as in German, French and many other languages.
Some expressions have a more approximate, related-but-not-identical translation. One such expression is food for thought – whereas English invokes the food metaphor to depict a morsel of information nurturing and stimulating the brain, Hebrew uses the abstract concept (originating in metaphor) of a point – thus a point for thought is a נְקֻדָּה לְמַחְשָׁבָה (neh-koo-DAH leh-mahkh-shah-VAH).
נקודה means point and מחשבה means thought.
Park this expression in your brain by listening and repeating it… and then repeating it again a few times throughout your day.
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