how to say “frozen” in Hebrew
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קָפוּא
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The Hebrew word for frozen is קָפוּא .
קפוא comes from the active-simple פָּעַל intransitive verb to freeze – לִקְפּוֹא .
For example:
הָאֲגָם קָפָא.
The lake froze.
and
קָפָאתִי מִקּוֹר.
I froze from (the) cold.
Mind you, that’s to freeze – just to freeze.
But to freeze something else – that’s לְהַקְפִּיא , an active-causative הִפְעִיל transitive verb.
For example:
הָרוּחַ הִקְפִּיאָה אֶת הַמַּיִם הַמְּטַפְטְפִים.
The wind froze the dripping water.
Likewise, a מַקְפִּיא is a freezer.
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