צְרוּ קֶשֶׁר Can’t read Hebrew yet? Unlike English, Hebrew doesn’t have one single word to mean to contact. Rather, we use an expression that means to create connection… which is essentially what contacting a person accomplishes. The expression is לִיצוֹר קֶשֶׁר . For example: יָצַרְתִּי אִתָּם קֶשֶׁר. I contacted them. …
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
תֹּכֶן Can’t read Hebrew yet? We saw the word for contents referring to that which fills a physical space, such as a stack of plates sitting inside a box. That word is תְּכוּלָה . Then there’s content in the abstract sense, such as the content of a book, or the content or substance of a…
מְכָל, תְּכוּלָה Can’t read Hebrew yet? We saw that the Hebrew word for to contain is לְהָכִיל of the root כ.ו.ל (k.w.l) meaning all. Likewise, a container is a מְכָל (erroneously yet very commonly written and pronounced as מֵכָל or מֵיכָל ). The word also refers to the kind of container called a tank, as in: יֵשׁ…
לְהָכִיל Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to contain is לְהָכִיל , an active-causative verb of the root כ.ו.ל (k.w.l) meaning all: to contain is to have the ability to include all different things inside oneself. For example: מוּצָר זֶה מֵכִיל גְּלוּטֶן. This product contains gluten. and הוּא…
חֲטִיפָה Can’t read Hebrew yet? If you’d like to follow the Hebrew news, one of the key words you’ll need to know these days is the one for a kidnapping – חֲטִיפָה . It comes from the root ח.ט.פ (kh.t.p), which means grabbing or snatching. We saw this root in a happier context a few weeks…
לִשְׁכּוֹחַ Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to forget is ַלִשְׁכּוֹח , as in the Biblical context of agricultural gifts to the poor: וְשָׁכַחְתָּ עֹמֶר בַּשָּׂדֶה… and should you forget a bundle (of grain) in the field… It’s a simple verb of the root שׁ.כ.ח (sh.k.kh). A couple of…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material Can’t read Hebrew yet? Review, practice and test yourself on this week’s doses of Hebrew! Flashcards Game Test שַׁבָּת שָׁלוֹם, וְסוֹף שָׁבוּעַ נָעִים! Shabbat Shalom, and have a nice weekend!
לְקַטֵּר Can’t read Hebrew yet? Imagine a boiling teapot, with steam rising from its spout. That’s approximately the image evoked in Hebrew when describing someone complaining non-stop, as לְקַטֵּר means literally to smoke a pipe or to burn incense. For example: תַּפְסִיקִי לְקַטֵּר עַל הַשְּׁכֵנִים וְתַעֲשִׁי מַשֶּׁהוּ.(to a female) Stop complaining so much about the neighbors and do something. …
קַרְחוֹן Can’t read Hebrew yet? Yesterday we saw the word for ice – קֶרַח . קרח appears in Biblical Hebrew, but the original readers of the Bible had no need for a term for iceberg, since none could be found anywhere near the land of Israel. So Modern Hebrew had to invent a word – קַרְחוֹן For example: הַטִּיטָנִיק פָּגְעָה…
קֶרַח Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for ice is קֶרַח . For example: הַהַחְלָקָה עַל קֶרַח הִיא סְפּוֹרְט שֶׁנִּכְנֶסֶת לָאָפְנָה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל.(The) ice skating is a sport that is becoming fashionable in Israel. Don’t try to combine קרח with another word to refer to ice cream – that’s גְּלִידָה .