[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/קוד-קידה-#.m4a” /]קוֹד קִידָּה Just like Eskimos have about 70 words for snow, Biblical Hebrew has several words for bowing – back then, it was something people did all the time, in many different forms. A type of bowing that doesn’t involve stretching oneself out on the ground is קידה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/קוד-קידה-#.m4a” /], from the simple verb לקוד[audioclip…
אֲסִיר תּוֹדָה The night after I fell off my bike, I woke up at 4am with pain that prompted me to get in a cab and head to the טֶרֶם (TEH-rem) urgent care center. They gave me a גֶּבֶס – cast (GHEH-ves) – because it wasn’t yet clear whether my scaphoid bone was broken or sprained. That…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/החוף-המערבי-#.m4a” /]הַחוֹף הַמַּעֲרָבִי Although I now live in Israel, I grew up on the west coast – החוף המערבי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/החוף-המערבי-#.m4a” /] – of the United States. חוף[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/החוף-המערבי-#.m4a” /] means coast. It also means beach, but the preferred term for beach in going to the beach is ים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/החוף-המערבי-#.m4a” /] – literally, sea. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/החוף-המערבי-#.m4a” /]בואו ניסע לים!…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/מראה-#.m4a” /]מַרְאֶה חִיצוֹנִי מראה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/מראה-#.m4a” /] – appearance – comes from the root ר.א.ה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/מראה-#.m4a” /] meaning seeing. חיצוני[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/מראה-#.m4a” /] – outward or external – comes from ח.ו.צ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/מראה-#.m4a” /] meaning out. Here’s מראה חיצוני[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/מראה-#.m4a” /] in context: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/מראה-#.m4a” /]אסור לתת למראה החיצוני של אדם להטעות אותנו. We must not let a person’s outward appearance mislead…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/היפופוטם-#.m4a” /]הִיפּוֹפּוֹטָם, סוּס הַיְּאוֹר The English word hippopotamus comes from Greek, as does the more common Hebrew term for the animal – היפופוטם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/היפופוטם-#.m4a” /]. The Greek word means river horse, which gives rise to the term that is authentically Hebrew: סוס היאור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/היפופוטם-#.m4a” /] – literally, horse of the Nile. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/היפופוטם-#.m4a”…
having trouble seeing the print? מַנְהִיג, מַנְהִיגָה I’m reading The Prime Minsters by Yehuda Avner, currently at the part about the winter of 1947 in Jerusalem. I’m getting inspired and delighted by the daring and, sometimes, the faith, Jewish people displayed in those days… especially by one of the key leaders in the liberation…