how to say “timing” in Hebrew

ByAmi Steinberger

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]תִּזְמוּן, עִיתּוּי

Hebrew has several words for time. The common one is זמן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /], as in:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]אין לי זמן!

I don’t have time!

זמן yields the word תזמון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /] – timing, as in:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]הגענו ביחד, בתזמון מושלם.

We arrived together – (in) perfect timing.

A fancier word for time is עת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]. You may recognize it from the biblical poem:

לכל זמן ועת לכל חפץ תחת השמים. (קהלת ג’, א’)[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]

To everything there is a time, and a season (time) for every thing under the heavens. (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

עת gives us another word for timing – עיתוי[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]. It works the same way as תזמון, so that one might paraphrase the above with:

[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/תזמון-#.m4a” /]הגענו ביחד, בעיתוי מושלם.

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