Handy Hebrew words, some of which you will recognize or know already from place names and blessings

 

English - Hebrew

 one - echud

flag - degel

Hebrew - English

Adjectives come after the nouns as in mazel tov and Yom tov

Adam - earth

Aviv - Spring(time)

baruch - blessed

Baruch - blessed (boy's name)

bat - daughter

ben - son

beth (as in Bethlehem) building/house

boker - morning 

boker tov - good morning (literally morning good)

degel - flag

echud - one

ha - the

ha har - the mountain

har - mountain

kadosh - holy

lailah - night

lailah tov - good night

lehem - bread

ma - what/why

ma ze - what's this? (literally what this)

mazel tov - good luck/congratulations (literally luck good)

shalom - peace/hello/goodbye

tel/Tel - hill

Tel Aviv - hill of spring

tov - good

utuh - you/you(are)/are you

yeled - boy

yulduh -girl

Yom - day

yom tov - festival (literally day good)

Useful Websites

duolongo.com

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

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Terms_derived_from_Hebrew

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