for a male or mixed pair, and תְּאוֹמוֹת for a female twins. for a male and תְּאוֹמָה for a female, as in: The root of all these is ת.א.מ (t.a.m), which means matching.
לַעֲשׂוֹת שְׁמִינִיּוֹת בָּאֲוִיר Can’t read Hebrew yet? When someone makes a great extra effort to get something done, especially for someone else, we might say that they’re jumping through hoops or going the extra mile. In Hebrew, we call this making figure eights in the air: לַעֲשׂוֹת שְׁמִינִיּוֹת בָּאֲוִיר . …
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-1.mp3″ /] Review Material You spent time on your Hebrew this week. Use these review materials to make it yours to keep. To take full advantage of the review material, click on “Choose a study mode” in the bottom right corner of the box above. [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/review-2.mp3″ /]שבת שלום, וסוף…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תור-1.m4a” /]תּוֹר If you’ve made aliyah or are thinking about doing so, this is a word you will certainly encounter in government office and when buying groceries: תור[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תור-1.m4a” /] – line or queue. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/תור-2.m4a” /]יש כאן תור כאורך הגלות! There’s a line here long like the exile! Paradoxically, תור can also mean appointment (where…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-1.m4a” /]פַּח The common Modern Hebrew word for garbage or rubbish is זבל[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-3.m4a” /]דני, תוציא את הזבל! Danny, take out the garbage! But historically, זבל referred specifically to fertilizer of animal droppings. The more generic term for waste, from Biblical times and on, is אשפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-4.m4a” /]. Then there’s פח[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/פח-1.m4a” /], which…