how to say “lips” in Hebrew
שְׂפָתַיִם
Yesterday we saw examples of things that come in pairs, and that they get a special ah-yeem ending in Hebrew.
Here’s another example – שְׂפָתַיִם , lips.
, lips.For example:
יֵשׁ לָהּ שְׂפָתַיִם אֲדֻמּוֹת.
She has red lips.
Why the doubling ending? Because a single lip is called a שָׂפָה – the same word as that for language.
– the same word as that for language.This shouldn’t surprise you, as a synonym for language in English is tongue, just as it is in Hebrew – לָשׁוׁן .
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