Hebrew Words - Handy and Easy To Learn

Hebrew - English

abba - father

Aviv/Aviva - spring (season)

Ben - son (as in Ben Hur, Benjamin)

birah - beer

bet - house (as in Beth-lehem, house of bread)

baruch - blessed (also a name, such as Baruch Spinoza, the Dutch philosopher)

bevakash - please/you're welcome (as in please don't mention it)

Briti - British

Canadi - Canadian

degel - flag

Dovid - David (Arabic is Dawood)

echud - one

El - God (as in the names Elizabeth, Elijah)

erev - evening

gadol - big;  ha-gadol The Great

ha - the

ha-zeh - this

hu - he

he - she

ima - mother

kudosh - holy

laila - night 

laila tov - good night, literally night good

lehem - bread

lo - not/don't

ma (muh) - what? (as in ma zeh? what is this)

magen Dovid - shield of David, six-point star, symbol on the flag of Israel)

magen Dovid Adom - red star first aid or ambulance service, equivalent of Red Cross

mazel tov - good luck, literally luck good/congratulations

mayim - water

melech - king

Otobus - bus/tram

rosh - head/leader 

salat - salad

shabbat - sabbath (starts Friday dusk - Saturday

shabbat shalom - a good/peaceful Sabbath (said Friday night and Saturday)

shalom - peace/hello (as in Jerusalem, and Arabic Salaam)

tel - hill

Tel Aviv - Hill of Spring

todah - thanks (todah robah - thank you very much)

tost - toast

tov - good

udonai - our God

uni (pronounced uh-knee) - I

utu - you

ve - and

yamin - right (as in Ben Yamin = son (of my) right (hand)

Yeled - boy / yuldu - girl

English - Hebrew

and - ve

beer - birah

blessed - baruch

boy - yeled

bread - lehem

bus/train - otobus

flag - degel

girl - yulduh

good - tov

hello - shalom

hill - tel

holy - kudo(w)sh

house - bet/beth/beit

I - uni

king - melech

night - laila

red - adom

peace - shalom

salad - salat

Spring - aviv

toast - tost

the - ha

one - echud (adonai echud in prayer means our Lord is one)

our God - adonai

right (direction) - yamin

telephone

water - mayim

Last Light Note

Abracadabra means I create what I speak.

Numbers

0

Zero  ( efes - EH-fess )

1

אחת  ( a h at - ah-KHAT )

2

םתיים  ( shtayim - SHTAH-Optional )

3

שלוש  ( shalosh - shah-LOSH )

4

Four  ( arba [`] - AHR-bah )

5

חמש  ( h amesh - khah-MESH )

6

She  ( shesh - shesh )

7

שבע  ( sheva [`] - SHEH-vah )

8

Eight  ( shmoneh - shmo-NEH )

9

תשע  ( tesha [`] - TEY-shah )

10

Useful Websites

Abracadabra picture on Pinterest

 https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/550776229425419231/

Duolingo

Memrise

Wikipedia Hebrew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Hebrew_grammar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language

Wikivoyage Phrasebook

https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Hebrew_phrasebook

Facebook Polyglots

https://www.facebook.com/Hyperglots/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_polyglots

Fund raiser for Magen David Adom

https://mdauk.org/

About the Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, teacher of English and other languages, aspiring polyglot.