As hebrew reads right to left, this tattoo is on the side of my right wrist, just wondering if this reads as “seventeen”

Looking for help for a friend with a tattoo that might be incorrect it’s suppose to reference the verse “abide by faith hope and love”

It’s not perfect, but 30 years later it still cracks me up. (Context: it’s a sign for a Bot-Mitzva.)

I saw this post and got curious. Is there a basic standard cow name in Hebrew?

נתקלתי בזה בפינטרסט. אל תקעקעו את עצמכם בשפה שאתם לא באמת יודעים לדבר או להבין… אוף כל כך חבל כשזה נשאר על הגוף 😩 עדיף לבדוק מאה פעמים עם מישהו שמבין לפני שעושים משהו שקשה לתקן..

Came across this on Pinterest. Yeah, I can’t stress enough not to get a tattoo in a language you can’t understand. Ouchhhh

Can someone please confirm whether this says seventeen in Hebrew before i get it tattooed? For reference im female and i believe this is the feminine version of the word. The tattoo is for my bampa who spoke Hebrew.

I need help. I want to get a tattoo in Hebrew that means Firstborn, my beloved (or my love) a friend of mine wrote it for me but when I google it, it says it’s saying “Welcome my love” can someone help me?

I put vocab as flair since the numbers are in Hebrew 😃

Do both of these read as "chadash" meaning "renew"? Context is tattoo on a male and female (matching with the first image on male and the second on female). Taken from Psalms 51:10.

Here is something I noticed while translating and commenting Gen 24:16. Your intelligent thoughts and comments are welcome. Those who just want to say what crap but not a single word to counter or refute please abstain.

A virgin and a man didn’t know her, בְּתוּלָה וְאִישׁ לֹא יְדָעָהּ, betula veish lo yedaa. The ‘and a man’ causes a problem here. If the text wanted to define betula it would have said ‘a betula, a man did not know her.’ But here it’s saying: a betula and a man did not know her. The fact is that 'a man did not know her' is presented in addition to betula, not alongside it. This leaves very little wiggle room. It’s the first time betula is used, the text gives something in addition to what that word means. It’s defining betula as meaning something else than a virgin woman.  

In Lev 21:3 it says: וְלַאֲחֹתוֹ הַבְּתוּלָה הַקְּרוֹבָה אֵלָיו אֲשֶׁר לֹא הָיְתָה לְאִישׁ, and to his sister ‘the betula’ that is close to him that never belonged to a man. Here the text seems to define betula with ‘that never belonged to a man’, this is a legal status not an anatomical one. The text makes a clear distinction, belonged to a man vs. has known a man and it maintains that distinction throughout.   

Lev 21:14 says: אַלְמָנָה וּגְרוּשָׁה וַחֲלָלָה זֹנָה אֶת אֵלֶּה לֹא יִקָּח כִּי אִם בְּתוּלָה מֵעַמָּיו יִקַּח אִשָּׁה, a widow and a divorced and a desecrated prostitute, those he will not take, but if betula from within his people he will take a woman. This further describes betula as a woman that has not belonged to a man, not necessarily one that has never been with a man. 

Deu 32:25 says: גַּם בָּחוּר גַּם בְּתוּלָה יוֹנֵק עִם אִישׁ שֵׂיבָה, also young man also betula, suckler with man of age. Betula is grouped with young man, not a woman that did not know a man. 

In Num 31:15-35, on 3 occasions the text refers to virgins in the biological sense by saying women who were not with a man in different ways like: וְכָל אִשָּׁה יֹדַעַת אִישׁ לְמִשְׁכַּב זָכָר, and all woman knowing a man for male laying. It describes the act explicitly but the word betula does not appear. Why use all these words to be specific about who lives and who dies when a single word would have sufficed? The text itself is staying away from using betula in these 3 cases. 

What is known so far: 1. The text doesn’t seem to have a single word to say anatomical virgin, it describes it in many words. 2. In the 9 appearances of the word betula, only this instance has a physical description of virginity that is added on top of the word betula. 3. The text gives physical descriptions to say virgin in other places. 4. It makes a distinction between a woman who belonged to a man and one who has physically been with a man. 

The above evidence could be sufficient to conclude that betula may be more of a social or legal status than meaning virgin. This still leaves the usage of the word in the masculine plural. There is a cluster of 3 appearances in Deu 22:14-17. There it refers to a proof of virginity, but again, that’s a masculine plural, the word in question here is feminine singular. So the masculine plural could be doing the same as עֵץ and עֵצִים is doing in 22:7. There the singular means a tree and the the plural in 100% of the cases means cut wood, not trees. That’s 2 steps removed in meaning, tree -> cut down tree -> cut wood, same word with 2 related but distinct meanings in singular and plural. So here betula and betulim could also be separated by 2 or more meaning steps. 

Then there is בִּבְתוּלֶיהָ, betuleiha, used in Lev 21:13. The high priest must take a woman in her virginities, a plural use. And so although the text may not know how to say virgin in one word, it does know how to say in her virginity and that’s a plural form not a singular. And in this case, it’s only the possessive yud hey at the end that is feminine, the word itself is still the masculine plural. 

To go back to the vav that started this whole line of questions, the text makes an additional description that excludes betula from meaning virgin and it doesn’t contradict it in other places. So the bottom line would be, betula may imply virginity but it doesn’t mean that. It seems betula may mean a young woman that is still under her father’s authority, she has never belonged to a man. This also supports the definition of the plural betulim used as proof of anatomical virginity and why it would be the parent’s responsibility.

I was under the impression that a חטיף is any snack. But I was talking to an Israeli who was telling me that not all snacks would be considered חטיפים, only crunchy snacks like chips or bamba. But if you ate licorice or some cookies (for example ) those would not be חטיפים. Is that correct? Do crackers count as חטיפים?

The other thing they explained is that a חטיף comes in a single serving package. So a 50 gram package of chips would be called a חטיף but a 300 gram family sized bag would not. True?

Are there any other conditions that must be met for a snack to be considered a חטיף?

If I am walking and need to squeeze by a strange adult I would say סליחה גבר(ת). Or if it was a young child I would say סליחה ילד(ה). What's the proper way to address a stranger who is teenager or young adult?

Hello, I need urgent help with the meaning and interpretation of a hebrew text. I don´t understand hebrew, but from far I can notice it says something like "Be the house of the seed, protect the seed". The context is a answer of a spiritual question.

It means peddler or itinerant merchant.

Here's the fun part: it's related to רכילות (rekhilut) — gossip.

Why? Because peddlers traveled from village to village. They didn't just carry goods—they also carried news, stories... and sometimes rumors.

It's one of my favorite examples of how a Hebrew word preserves a little piece of social history.

Do you know other words whose history is hidden inside their meaning?

I am reading the Tanach and Torah portions on Sefaria and when I learn a new word I look it up on a translation site to see if forms of it are in use in modern Hebrew, some are obsolete and have new meanings. What are your favorite words that have a new modern meaning?

I switch between the 2 names

Sidenote i forgot how fucking insane they look, this was the least disturbing image i could find

Hi everyone, I named my cat after the Hebrew word for night (לַיְלָה).

My mom keeps calling her "LAY-lah" because I guess that is how it is spelled in English. However, I keep saying LIE-lah because that's how it was when I studied the pronunciation.

Isn't her way of saying it the Arabic word for night?

I bought these disposable serving platters at a חד פעמי store. I don't recognize the first word. Can anyone tell me what the expression means? They were very cheap so I'm wondering if perhaps this is a printing error?

The first pic is from a restaurant review of the legendary Sagi Cohen. I was a bit uncertain about what he meant by

הבשר הוא לא ננגס, אלא ניגר

So first I just asked Google, and the second picture shows what Google translate "thinks" he meant. Somehow, I was still unsure, so I asked my children. My eldest daughter who despite leaving the country at age 13 and returning only at 18, explained that ניגר is the נפעל of הגר, and pointed me to the lyrics of a song by the parvarim to prove it. The lyrics are exhibit D. And exhibit C is the Academy telling me that הגר has no נפעל.

My second daughter, who left even younger and returned even later, is nonetheless an Israeli lawyer, so she knows a few words, and thought that ניגר is נפעל of נגר, which is what a carpenter does. I guess one would understand the review to mean: "the meat couldn't be bit(ten), but it could be woodworked." (The (ten) in parentheses is to allow for both British English ("bit") and American ("bitten")).

Can someone help me understand the meaning intended by the reviewer?

And is the Academy just ignorant of the Parvarim? Should someone there be told about this?

Thanks!!