how to say “the underground” in Hebrew
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-1.mp3″ /]מַחְתֶּרֶת
I’m not referring here to the London Underground. Rather, I’m referring to illegal activity done in secret.
The word is מַחְתֶּרֶת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-1.mp3″ /], which nowadays refers to an underground force.
For example:
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-2.mp3″ /]לִפְנֵי שֶׁהָיָה צה”ל, הָיוּ הַמַּחְתָּרוֹת.
Before there was the IDF, there were the underground forces.
This word first appears in the biblical book of שְׁמוֹת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/מחתרת-3.mp3″ /] – Exodus.
