[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לרפא-#.m4a” /]לְרַפֵּא, לְהֵירָפֵא How do you say to heal in Hebrew? It depends on whether you’re doing it to yourself or to someone else. To heal someone else is לרפא[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לרפא-#.m4a” /], a פיעל verb. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/לרפא-#.m4a” /]התרופה ריפאה אותו לחלוטין. The medication healed him completely. In this example, the medication is doing…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/וסט-#.m4a” /]וֵסְט, אֵפוֹד That fancy piece of clothing that looks like a shirt without sleeves is called by Israelis וסט[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/וסט-#.m4a” /], just like in English. There is an official Hebrew word coined by the Academy of the Hebrew language – לסוטה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/וסט-#.m4a” /] – but it never caught on. וסט in context: [audioclip…
בִּרְצִינוּת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ברצינות-1.mp3″ /] The Hebrew word for serious is רציני[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ברצינות-2.mp3″ /] in the masculine. An example in the feminine plural: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ברצינות-3.mp3″ /]הן בחורות ממש רציניות. They are really serious young women. In my search for the origin of the word, I came up only with the name of the Aramean king of biblical times,…
מִתְחַשֵּׁק לִי… Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for that basic feeling of desire or the urge to live and enjoy is חֵשֶׁק . אֵין לִי חֵשֶׁק לָצֵאת הַיּוֹם. I don’t have the oomph to go out today. To say I feel like… or I don’t feel like…, you’d use a reflexive-intensive…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/קבוצה-#.m4a” /]קְבוּצָה In Biblical Hebrew, קבוצה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/קבוצה-#.m4a” /] referred to a group of objects gathered together: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/קבוצה-#.m4a” /]“קְבֻצַת כֶּסֶף וּנְחֹשֶׁת וּבַרְזֶל וְעוֹפֶרֶת…” (יחזקאל כ”ב, כ’) “A grouping of silver and bronze and iron and lead…” (Ezekiel 22:20) But in Modern Hebrew, קבוצה usually refers to a group of people: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/קבוצה-#.m4a” /]הקבוצה הזאת נפגשת פעם בשבועיים. This…