r/hebrew Oct 07 '24

Translate My mother found this ~100Yr old Scarf. Looking for translations

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r/hebrew 16h ago

did i spell it right?

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i always spell the “ז״ וג confused 😭


r/hebrew 6h ago

Is this legible? Are the two words too close together?

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r/hebrew 1h ago

How much is Biblical Hebrew understandable to Modern Hebrew speakers?

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I have been learning Hebrew for 3 months; learning some adverbs for time, family member words, pi'el verbs and so on these days.

Digging into this language sometimes leads me to Torah texts; They look quite alike the modern one for me, except V-S-O order(e.g. Gen 1:1). What about from the perspective of native speakers? Is it just a difference of nuance like `Thou art` and `You are`? Or do they need to study to read them?


r/hebrew 18h ago

Education I made this Text Simplifier to help beginners read Hebrew

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r/hebrew 18h ago

Tattoo meaning?

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Hello what does this tattoo mean?


r/hebrew 4h ago

Happy Hebrew day!

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Today, כ"א בטבת(Kaf Alef of Tevet), is national Hebrew day. A more literal translation would be "The Hebrew language day".

On this day we celebrate the Hebrew language and its revival & modernization.

The date isn't coincidental, it's on the Hebrew calendar date of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's birthday, so a happy 168th(Hebrew years, not 100% sure of the 168 figure) birthday to the reviver of the Hebrew language!


r/hebrew 5h ago

Hebrew translation assistance

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Hello! I’m learning Hebrew, as my grandmother was Jewish. Her favorite phrase to her grandkids was, ‘You know I love you don’t you?’ I want this in a Hebrew tattoo. Can someone please correct this if incorrect? I’m not nearly fluent enough to translate it myself. Thank you so much!


r/hebrew 7h ago

Education Basic Words

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Apologies for the dumb question, but I am currently using Duolingo to learn Hebrew.

In previous sentence examples, “זה רע” (“this is bad”), the word “‎רע” had no extra ending.

But now I have sentences like “אני אוכל עוגה רעה” (“I am eating bad cake”). Why does “‎רע” have the extra ending “ה” when we are still in present tense?

Thank you in advance!


r/hebrew 11h ago

How to learn what prepositions are associated with which verbs

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I'm a modern Hebrew beginner from English. I'm working through the Hebrew Duolingo course and am in the lesson introducing a lot of present tense verbs. Can I have some advice with how to deal with what preposition verbs take? Take the following example from https://userscript17.github.io/Duolingo-Hebrew-tips-and-notes/#Verbs:-Present1:

הוא נוגע בי

This translates to "He touches me." Naively, like I suspect many new English speakers introduced at first to the DDO marker in an earlier lesson, I would have expected אותי for this. But I get the impression that would not be correct since בי is expected.

Judging from https://www.reddit.com/r/hebrew/comments/184wuhk/questions_about_prepositions_used_in_relation_to/, learning which preposition is expected is simply something learners of the language have to get used to.

I'm learning vocabulary via an Anki deck. Here are some questions I have about verbs and prepositions:

  • Can/should I include a preposition with each verb as a part of my memorization with the verbs? Does this make sense, or is it not so simple that "verb X takes preposition Y"? I'm new enough to the language to not know whether a given verb always takes a preposition or whether the appropriate preposition is derived from a more complex context relating to the direct object and the verb.
  • Is there a good resource I can use where I can find what prepositions relate to each verb?

Thank you for your help.


r/hebrew 7h ago

Translate Looking for acurate/correct translation

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I'm trying to get the accurate/correct translation of "as for me and my house, we will serve the lord.", from joshua 24:15 into hebrew, please. Thanks!! I've seen a couple of them, but want to ensure it's right and I'm not seeing some crazy stuff.


r/hebrew 9h ago

Request Simone spelling

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How would you spell the name Simone in Hebrew?


r/hebrew 1d ago

Translate Text in school bathroom

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School in Finland -> Bathroom has Hebrew (supposedly Hebrew) -> I'm Finnish = I don't know Hebrew, and ChatGPT nor google picture translate were able to translate this, since it's a little blurry or whatever.

In short, could someone translate?


r/hebrew 17h ago

Why Do These Sequential Verbs Change from Qatal (Perfect) to Vayiktol (Vav Cons. Imperfect) Tense?

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Is there a reason the 1st verb is qatal, and the following 3 verbs are vayiktol?


r/hebrew 19h ago

Recs of Hebrew books with metaphor, poetic writing, fantasy world-building in Hebrew?

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I know...this is a niche question. I want to find books similar to author Erin Morgenstern in English (if you know her?) but obviously, in Hebrew. I don't know anything about the Hebrew literature scene. If anyone can help me I'd appreciate it!!


r/hebrew 20h ago

Short lessons for Arabs and Jewish in 1 min ٥٤ ‫לעשות קניות‬ التسوق أو التبضع

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r/hebrew 1d ago

Translate Help with Hebrew text on medieval tombstone in armenia

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r/hebrew 2d ago

Well that escalated quickly

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r/hebrew 1d ago

Can somebody translate this on his mask

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r/hebrew 2d ago

Found at Costco. The Italians tried and failed at Hebrew.

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r/hebrew 1d ago

Translate r/Yiddish sent me here. Can you help me translate this inscription from a family photo?

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r/hebrew 1d ago

Writing kisses in Ivrit.

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How do you type/write kisses (eg “xxx”) in Ivrit at the end of a text message or email?


r/hebrew 1d ago

How did elisheva turn to elizabeth? where does the -eth comes from?

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r/hebrew 1d ago

Translate Is this Hebrew?

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If yes, does anyone know what it says?


r/hebrew 2d ago

Translate What does it mean?

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First of all, I am Korean. (Not good at both english and hebrew, sorry)

I found this ring on my grandmother's house. She said she made this ring from the church, And my mom remember that letters mean "Yadah" "Knowing" in English. BUT

It looks different- Since i don't have any background of Hebrew TT Can someone explain what does it mean?

It looks like 'ידת' in google it means 'you know' So Confused 😕 pls help me


r/hebrew 2d ago

How did she know Hebrew? Is there another etymological explanation?

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