how to say “loudspeaker” in Hebrew
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רַמְקוֹל
A word that dots the Hebrew Bible in the most mysterious and esoteric of contexts – as well as mundane ones – is that which means voice or sound – קוֹל ( ).
).To speak out loud is לְדַבֵּר בְּקוֹל רָם ( ) – literally, to speak with a loud voice.
) – literally, to speak with a loud voice.Giving a name to that 20th-century electrical invention that we call an amplifier or loudspeaker, or simply a speaker, the makers of Modern Hebrew devised a word: רַמְקוֹל (
).For example:
אַתֶּם לֹא שׁוֹמְעִים אֶת הַמּוּזִיקָה כִּי הָרַמְקוֹל מְכֻבֶּה.
You (plural) don’t hear the music because the speaker is turned off.
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