צְרוּ קֶשֶׁר listen and repeat 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 listen and repeat. For example: יָצַרְתִּי אִתָּם קֶשֶׁר. I…
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material listen and repeat 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! listen and repeat
תֹּכֶן listen and repeat 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 listen and repeat. Then there’s content in the abstract sense, such as the content of a book, or the…
מְכָל, תְּכוּלָה listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? We saw that the Hebrew word for to contain is לְהָכִיל listen and repeat of the root כ.ו.ל (k.w.l) meaning all. Likewise, a container is a מְכָל listen and repeat (erroneously yet very commonly written and pronounced as מֵכָל or מֵיכָל listen and repeat). The word also refers to the kind of container called a…
לְהָכִיל listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to contain is לְהָכִיל listen and repeat, 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. listen …
חֲטִיפָה listen and repeat 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 listen and repeat. It comes from the root ח.ט.פ (kh.t.p), which means grabbing or snatching. We saw this root in a happier context…
לִשְׁכּוֹחַ listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for to forget is ַלִשְׁכּוֹח listen and repeat, 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… listen It’s a simple verb of the root שׁ.כ.ח (sh.k.kh). …
חֹמֶר לְשִׁנּוּן Review Material listen and repeat 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! listen and repeat
לְקַטֵּר listen and repeat 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 listen and repeat 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…
קַרְחוֹן listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? Yesterday we saw the word for ice – קֶרַח listen and repeat. 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…
קֶרַח listen and repeat Can’t read Hebrew yet? The Hebrew word for ice is קֶרַח listen and repeat. For example: הַהַחְלָקָה עַל קֶרַח הִיא סְפּוֹרְט שֶׁנִּכְנֶסֶת לָאָפְנָה בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל.(The) ice skating is a sport that is becoming fashionable in Israel. listen Don’t try to combine קרח with another word to refer to ice cream – that’s גְּלִידָה listen and repeat.