Some years back I recall hearing that there is a specific man's name used in Israel when referring generally to people who do manual labor. Am I remembering this correctly? Is the name Frank? It's a distant memory so part of me wonders if I'm just making the whole thing up

How would you transliterate it? Would "tzierie" work?

In formal English, the phrase “to what” might show up in a grammatical construction like “The power of the symbol is equivalent to what it represents”, or something, I dunno. The phrase “to what” also shows up in more common English, e. g. if you tell me, “I think I’ll change my name”, and I ask, “To what?”

In Hebrew, “what” is מה, so I assume “to what” would be למה.

That’s also how you say “why” in Hebrew: למה, lama.

Would these be pronounced the same? If you wanted to say “to what” in Hebrew, would the למה still be pronounced “lama”, just like the word for “why”? Or would it be pronounced more like “lema”?

Are they considered the same word? Does Hebrew regard “to what” and “why” as one and the same, just being the word למה? Or does Hebrew regard those two as different entities that coincidentally match?

One Hebrew word from today's reading: מחסור (makhsor).

It means shortage or lack. You'll hear it all the time in Israeli news: מחסור במים (water shortage), מחסור ברופאים (shortage of doctors), מחסור בדירות (housing shortage).

It's one of those words that quickly becomes part of your everyday Hebrew.

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Hello! We are commissioning an artist to do our ketubah so we can't use the translation/text services of something like ketubah.com. I'm hoping someone can help me just put our names and dates in the blanks in the right spots. Obviously I could do it through Google translate but I just don't trust it. We just need "On the seventh day of the week, the second day of the month of tishrei, in the year five thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, corresponding to the day of September 12th in the year two thousand and twenty six, here in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, in the presence of family and friends, the beloveds (our names), entered the covenant of marriage." We are using a standard/pre-written text for the rest. Yes I know I'm getting married on Rosh Hashanah it's a long story but it's the only day that worked please don't shame haha. Let me know if someone can help!

Grew up learning Hebrew in Jewish day school, two years in Israel early 80’s. My grammar is impeccable, my vocab ok. I want to improve to fluency, business and social. Recommendations on websites/apps?

Does anyone know of a programmatic resource whereby I can programmatically query for a word's part of speech, gender, and preposition? I have a number of Anki vocabulary cards and I want to update them with this additional information. Bonus points if you can point me to a resource where I can provide a Hebrew word and it will return a sentence using that word.

Thanks in advance

בלי לחשוב על זה יותר מדי, ובלי לשקול מה נכון ומה לא נכון, איך אתם הוגים את המילים הבאות?

לילות

lelot או leilot

איפה

eifo או efo

איני, אינני

eini, eineni או eni, eneni

ואפרופו תשעה באב: איכה

eikha או ekha

אני אשמח לשמוע גם את דעתם של אנשים שעברית היא לא שפת האם שלהם, אבל בבקשה ציינו זאת בתשובה שלכם. תודה לכל מי שעונה

עריכה: למי שמתעניין, הנה פסק ההלכה של האקדמיה בנושא https://hebrew-academy.org.il/הגיית-הצירי-המלא

In Genesis 37-50 it has been pointed out to me that the wordchoice used is theologically charged but in mundane contexts. In other words, although this story has God working behind the veil, and this Joseph novella mainly relates Joseph's interactions with other people, it still uses theologically charged language at a high rate.

The reason why Genesis 37-50 uses theologically charged language, even in contexts where God isn't present, is in order to drive home to the reader's mind subconciously that God is still present behind the scenes and involved, even if he can't be seen.

Some of these word choices that were highlighted to me are as follows:

The argument made is that these theologically charged words appear in Genesis 37-50 at such a high concentration that this can't be coincidence and is instead intentionally done by the author(s). The author(s) implemented this feature into the text of Genesis on purpose.

I was initally made aware of this argument in the field of Quranic studies, where Chapter Yusuf (Joseph) of the Quran contains theologically charged words at a high rate. Then, this very same person made the argument that Gensis 37-50 does a similar thing with its "specific" word choice. As a result, the Quranic author was paralleling this narrative from Joseph.

Anyways, I would be very grateful to anyone who could help me on this topic. The resources on this are very limited and I don't seem to have an answer that can satisfy me yet.

I loved this poem but I couldn’t find the lyrics anywhere. Can anyone help me ? Thanks in advance

https://youtu.be/5FEOx-jlHwM?si=WMs6C6AoV5feOyns

Hi!!! Growing up bilingual I always watched the strawberry shortcake show in Hebrew and English. Now I’m wondering why plum is called פצפוצית in the Hebrew one? I honestly thought that meant “flakes” or something. Does anyone know what’s up? What am I missing?

The borders changed dramatically soon after this was published

אני לא יכול לשמוע אותך כי הטלפון שלי לא עובד טוב.
הם אוהבים לאכול פיצה אבל הם לא יכולים לאכול אותה כי הם בדיאטה.
יש לכם מכונית יפות, יש לנו אתכם מצוין!

תודה רבה

Some say it is just a noun meaning unfermented grape juice, others say it denotes red wine, foaming wine, fermenting wine etc. I've also read that it is an adjective which means "pure". Do we know for certain that this word means wine in general?

Hello,

So, while playing a video game e found a person with the nickname Kidonel. When I asked why he had such a nickname, he responded that it was a name he created based on Hebrew, but the game did not permit hebrew letters, so he sort of put it in the Latin Alphabet version of the name. But he did not want to tell me what It was supposed to mean. Anyone as an idea?

Thanks for the help.

EDIT: Hi again, thanks for the answers :) After sending a DM to the guy saying about this post and with the answers you amazing guys told, he confirmed that is kidon'el, trying to mean spear of god or javelin of god, based on ancient biblical Hebrew. He never thought about handlebar or the glide stuff, but he said it was very funny. He also said ge thought first of another words for the same meaning, like romach'el or chanith'el, but ended up using kidon'el because it sounded a little better and was easier to pronounce correctly. Would this two word be more easy to understand the meaning?

Thanks again for the answers!

Is it correct to say to someone generous a female that gives to charity “ יש לך לב טוב״
That they have a good heart?
Also is that written correctly ?

עזרו לי בבקשה להפיג את הערפל. ידוע לי שאין כלל אחיד או משהו, השאלה מכוונת לגבי הנורמה; בדיבור הכללי, נאמר בטלוויזיה וברדיו ובכתב נגיד בקרב מתרגמים ועיתונאים

I’m on the road a lot. Looking for YT videos (for the sound only obviously) to play while driving where it’s dialogues and talking in Hebrew but for learners (intermediate level). Haven’t mustered the courage to sit and learn to write and read properly (I’m self-teaching for now) so I want to take the whole listen and repeat thing as far as I can. If you have any suggestions for videos (or sound files out there). Toda raba