[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רעיון-1.m4a” /]רַעְיוֹן, מֻשָּׂג The Hebrew word for idea is רעיון[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רעיון-2.m4a” /]. For example: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רעיון-3.m4a” /]יש לי רעיון גדול! I have a great (big) idea! The word first appears in one of the later books of the Hebrew Bible (קהלת[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/רעיון-4.m4a” /] – Ecclesiastes), where it means musing. Despite conceptual connections we might draw between רעיון…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/תירוש-#.m4a” /]תִּירוֹשׁ, מִיץ עֲנָבִים The Hebrew word for juice is מיץ[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/תירוש-#.m4a” /], as in: מיץ תפוחים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/תירוש-#.m4a” /] – apple juice מיץ תפוזים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/תירוש-#.m4a” /] – orange juice מיץ עגבניות[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/תירוש-#.m4a” /] – tomato juice etc. But while מיץ ענבים[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/תירוש-#.m4a” /] is a term people sometimes use to refer to grape juice, they’re more likely to…
מצווה When an Israeli teen gets a letter from the military to show up, s/he receives a צַו גִּיּוּס (tsahv g-ee-YOOS) – literally, this is an order of recruitment. A mitzvah (in Hebrew it’s מִצְוָה – meets-VAH), in the purest sense of the word, is a commandment. See the connection between the words צו and…
[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-סתם-1.m4a” /]לֹא סְתַם בֵּית קָפֶה Here’s the word סתם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-סתם-2.m4a” /] again with yet another usage. Here, it means just or just any as in: [audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-סתם-3.m4a” /]זה לא סתם בית קפה. This is not just any cafe. בית קפה[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-סתם-4.m4a” /] – cafe – means literally, house of coffee. Some other applications of לא סתם[audioclip url=”https://archive.ulpan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/לא-סתם-5.m4a” /]: [audioclip…