English and European words such as alphabet, earth, loco and habitat could come from Hebrew, according to an independent Israeli linguistics researcher who has written a number of unpublished ...

Just 13 years after the word “podcast” entered the Oxford English Dictionary, the Academy of the Hebrew Language is looking to create a word for it in Hebrew. Last week the Academy, in ...

While native Hebrew speakers can often read without nikkud, for those learning the language, especially English speakers, understanding and pronouncing words correctly without these markers is a ...

Beyond words, let us first look at word order. Modern Hebrew, as I will mention below again, is shaped after modern English languages. Ego-enlarging as they seem to be, they have the subject come ...

Although yod is the smallest Hebrew letter (similar to the Greek iota ı),** its ancient form was much larger, looking more like yad “hand” (from shoulder to middle finger).

Even words such as shemesh “sun,” the common word in the Bible and modern Hebrew, was called Hammah “ (the) hot one” in Rabbinical Hebrew.* ...

A new and important translation aims to introduce readers to David Avidan, the most experimental poet in the history of Hebrew poetry, and a poet unjustly unknown to nearly all English-language ...

Or is it Chanukah? Hanukka? The confusion over the spelling comes because the name of the holiday is a Hebrew word and the English transliteration isn't totally clear.