Modern Hebrew Dictionary Online Translation LEXILOGOS (2024)

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• Academy of the Hebrew language: Hebrew terms database (with translation into English)

• Milog: Hebrew dictionary, meanings in Hebrew

• Morfix: Hebrew-English dictionary

• Projet Babel: Hebrew-French dictionary, by Colette Allouch

• Hebrew-English basic dictionary מילון עברי-אנגלי (2020) + PDF NEW

• English-Hebrew proverbs (2023) NEW

• Reverso: Hebrew-English translation, words in context

• Lingea: Hebrew-English dictionary & multilingual

• Loecsen: Hebrew-English common phrases (+ audio)

• Goethe-Verlag: Hebrew-English common phrases & illustrated vocabulary (+ audio)

• LingoHut: Hebrew-English vocabulary by topics (+ audio)

• TeachMeHebrew: Hebrew-English vocabulary, the 10 000 most common words, frequency list

• MyHebrewDictionary: Hebrew-English vocabulary

• Defense Language Institute: basic vocabulary (+ audio) - civilaffairs - medical

• Tatoeba: sentences in Hebrew, with translation (audio)

• American Heritage dictionary: Semitic roots

• Shoroshim: English thesaurus of Hebrew verb roots, compiled by Reuven Brauner (2014)

• Shorashon: Hebrew roots & translation into French

• Comprehensive etymological dictionary of the Hebrew language by Ernest Klein (1987)

• The analytic and synthetic etymology of the Hebrew language by Isaac Fried (2004) (in Hebrew)

• Anglo-Hebrew modern dictionary by Isaiah Raffalovitch (1926)

• English-Hebrew dictionary by Abraham Solomon Waldstein (1925)

• Biblical idioms that have changed their meaning in modern Hebrew by Marek Piela, in Studia judaica (2008)

• Biblical names for military weapons in Modern Hebrew, Asher Shafrir (2015)

• The names of Israeli military ranks and their linguistic analysis (2013)

• Arabic influence (modern period) by Roni Henkin, in Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics (2013)

• Arabic, Hebrew loanwords

• Arabic loanwords in Hebrew by Haseeb Shehadeh, in Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics (2013)

• Arabic loanwords in Hebrew, with a list of Hebrew loanwords, in Studia Orientalia (2011)

• Hebrew neologisms by Azzan Yadin, in Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics (2013)

• Translation and Interpreting in Israel, Meta (1998)

• Technological and scientific Hebrew terminology by Ron Irmay

• La terminologie scientifique en hébreu moderne by Shragga Irmay

• The status of translated literature in the creation of Hebrew literature in pre-state Israel (the Yishuv period), by Zohar Shavit

• The language of plays translated into Hebrew from English and French: a cultural-stylistic study, by Rina Ben-Shahar

• Translation from Arabic into Hebrew in Israel: an overview, by Hannah Amit-Kochavi

• Hebrew-Arabic translations in the modern era: a general survey, by Hannah Amit-Kochavi, in Maḥmoud Khayal

Hebrew first names

• My-Hebrew-Name: Hebrew names (in Latin & Hebrew characters)

• Morim Hebrew names & French names transliterated in Hebrew

• French names, transliterated in Hebrew & Arabic

• Biblical names

Hebrew language

→ Hebrew keyboard to type a text with the Hebrew characters

→ Transliterated Hebrew keyboard to type a text with the Latin script

• Pealim: verbs conjugation in Hebrew

• Hebrew-verbs: English > Hebrew verbs conjugation

• Lev software: Hebrew alphabet, how to write Hebrew letters & cursive script

• Academy of the Hebrew language האקדמיה ללשון העברית

• Teach me Hebrew: Hebrew course

• HebrewCourseOnline: Hebrew course (advanced learners)

• Hebreu.org: Hebrew grammar (in French)

• Modern Hebrew: grammar by Lewis Glinert (2005)

• Hebrew basic course by Joseph Reif & Anna Levinson, Foreign Service Institute (1965) (+ audio)

• studies about the Hebrew language, by Ora Schwarzwald

• Modern Hebrew, in The Semitic languages (2011)

• Transition in Modern Hebrew Word formation: from discontinuous to linear formation, in Skase (2003)

• Recursiveness in Hebrew word formation, in Skase (2010)

• studies about the Hebrew language, by Yishai Neuman

• A lexically creative approach to the teaching of Modern Hebrew as a foreign language, in Materia giudaica (2006)

• studies about Modern Hebrew, by Yael Reshef

• The re-emergence of Hebrew as a national language, in Semitic languages, an international handbook (2012)

• Modern Hebrew grammar: history of scholarship, in Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics (2013)

• Revival of Hebrew: grammatical structure and lexicon

• Revival of Hebrew: sociolinguistic dimension

• Written Hebrew of the revival generation as a distinct phase in the evolution of Modern Hebrew, in Journal of Semitic studies (2016)

• The renaissance of modern Hebrew and modern standard Arabic, parallels and differences in the revival of two Semitic languages, by Joshua Blau (1981)

• Hebrew and Arabic in asymmetric contact in Israel by Roni Henkin, in Lodz papers in pragmatics (2011)

• Vocalization of Modern Hebrew by Amir Aharoni, in Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics (2013)

• Possession in Modern Hebrew by Roni Henkin, in Encyclopedia of Hebrew language and linguistics (2013)

• studies about the Hebrew language, by Ghilʾad Zuckermann

• Lessons from the Hebrew revival applicable to the reclamation, maintenance and empowerment of aboriginal languages and cultures: Stop, Revive, Survive! by Ghilʿad Zuckermann & Michael Walsh, in Australian journal of linguistics (2011)

• books & papers about the Hebrew language: Googlebooks | Internet archive | Academia| Wikipedia

News חדשות

• Arouts 7: news in Hebrew (+ audio) or in English

• Ha'aretz הארץ

• Ynet

• Google news

Texts & Literature

• LyrikLine: poems in Hebrew, with translation (+ audio)

• Modern Hebrew poetry, a bilingual anthology, by Ruth Finer Mintz (1982)

• The first Hebrew Shakespeare translations: Isaac Edward Salkinson's Ithiel the Cush*te of Venice (1874) & Ram and Jael (1878): bilingual edition & commentary by Lily Kahn (2017)

• Hebrew Renaissance poets in Russia: their reputations among Russian-language readers, by Lewis Bernhardt, in Revue des études juives (1974)

→ Israelian anthem in Hebrew & translation התקוה (Hatikva)

• Haktuvim: translation of the Bible into Modern Hebrew, with the New Testament הברית החדשה

• The New Testament translated into Modern Hebrew (1991)

• translation by Franz Delitzsch, German protestant theologian (1877)

• The New Testament translated into Modern Hebrew by Isaac Salkinson & David Ginsberg (1886)

• revised edition by Eric Sigurd Gabe (2000)

→ bilingual Bible in Modern Hebrew, English & other languages

First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

כל בני אדם נולדו בני חורין ושווים בערכם ובזכויותיהם.
כולם חוננו בתבונה ובמצפון, לפיכך חובה עליהם לנהוג איש ברעהו ברוח של אחווה.

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights הכרזה לכל באי עולם בדבר זכויות האדם translation into Hebrew (+ audio)

→ First article in different languages

→ Universal Declaration of Human Rights: in Hebrew, English & other languages

Some Hebrew words

שלום	shalom	peace; hello! welcome!
תודה	todah	thank you
עכשיו	aḵshav	now (ḵ or kh is pronounced /χ/)
מילה	milah	word
מילון	milon	dictionary
ספר	sefer	book
ישראל	Yisrael	Israel
ירושלים	Yerushalayim	Jerusalem
צרפת	Tsarfat	France

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Modern Hebrew Dictionary Online Translation LEXILOGOS (2024)

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What is the meaning of Hebrew in English? ›

(ˈhibruː) noun. 1. a member of the Semitic peoples inhabiting ancient Palestine and claiming descent from Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; an Israelite.

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What is the meaning of the Hebrew word or? ›

As a central theme throughout the Bible, the Hebrew word אוֹר (or) – meaning light – has both literal and metaphorical meanings. In the Torah, light is the first thing that God creates, representing the beginnings of life and knowledge.

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What is the Hebrew word for to? ›

Assuming you mean “to” as a preposition, it would usually be the prefix “ל־” (l'-) applied to the object. So, for instance, “life” in Hebrew is חיים (khayim) and the toast “To life!” would be לחיים!

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How many words are there in the Hebrew dictionary? ›

Compared to languages like English and French, Hebrew has relatively fewer words. According to the Hebrew Language Academy, Hebrew has an estimated 75,000-85,000 lexemes, or abstract lexical units roughly corresponding to the entries you'd expect to find in a dictionary.

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What is God called in Hebrew to English? ›

The Hebrew word for God is Elohim. The word Elohim is plural, but it is often used with a singular meaning.

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What is the root of Hebrew? ›

The name is believed to be based on the Semitic root ʕ-b-r ( עבר‎), meaning "beyond", "other side", "across"; interpretations of the term "Hebrew" generally render its meaning as roughly "from the other side [of the river/desert]"—i.e., an exonym for the inhabitants of the land of Israel and Judah, perhaps from the ...

What does Jesus mean in Hebrew? ›

The Catholic Encyclopedia states, “The word Jesus is the Latin form of the Greek Iesous, which in turn is the transliteration of the Hebrew Jeshua, or Joshua, or again Jehoshua, meaning '[God] is salvation. '” The Catechism of the Catholic Church adds, “Jesus means in Hebrew: 'God saves.

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What word is God in Hebrew? ›

The Name YHWH. God's name in the Hebrew Bible is sometimes elohim, “God.” But in the vast majority of cases, God has another name: YHWH.

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What does the word Bible mean literally? ›

The English word Bible is derived from Koinē Greek: τὰ βιβλία, romanized: ta biblia, meaning "the books" (singular βιβλίον, biblion). The word βιβλίον itself had the literal meaning of "scroll" and came to be used as the ordinary word for "book".

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What is God call in Hebrew? ›

Yahweh, name for the God of the Israelites, representing the biblical pronunciation of “YHWH,” the Hebrew name revealed to Moses in the book of Exodus. The name YHWH, consisting of the sequence of consonants Yod, Heh, Waw, and Heh, is known as the tetragrammaton.

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What is the word of God called? ›

synonyms: Bible, Book, Christian Bible, Good Book, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, Scripture, Word.

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What is the true meaning of mazel tov? ›

Mazel tov is literally translated as "good luck" in its meaning as a description, not a wish. The implicit meaning is "good luck has occurred" or "your fortune has been good" and the expression is an acknowledgement of that fact.

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What is the first word in Hebrew? ›

“Reshet” means “beginning.” So the full term means “In [the] beginning.” The first Hebrew word in the Torah is בראשית-beresh*t.

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What is the longest word in Hebrew? ›

The longest Hebrew word is the 19-letter-long (including vowels) וכשלאנציקלופדיותינו (u'chshelentsiklopediotenu), which means "And when to our encyclopedias..." The Hebrew word אנציקלופדיה (encyclopedia) is of a European origin.

What is the 1 letter in Hebrew? ›

Aleph (or alef or alif, transliterated ʾ) is the first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician ʾālep 𐤀, Hebrew ʾālef א, Aramaic ʾālap 𐡀, Syriac ʾālap̄ ܐ, Arabic ʾalif ا, and North Arabian 𐪑.

What is the literal meaning of Hebrew? ›

1. : a member of one of a group of northern Semitic peoples including the Israelites. especially : israelite. 2. : the Semitic language of the Hebrews.

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What does the word Hebrew originally mean? ›

The Hebrews left the Mesopotamian city of Ur and became wandering herders; in fact, the word Hebrew originally meant “wanderer” or “nomad.” Abraham had a son, Isaac, and Isaac had a son, Jacob, collectively known as the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible.

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What does Hebrew mean biblical? ›

Some Biblical scholars believe that the Hebronites gained their name as a result of originating at the Levite-dominated city named Hebron, meaning league.

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Is Hebrew the language of Jesus? ›

Jesus likely understood Hebrew, though his everyday life would have been conducted in Aramaic. Of the first four books of the New Testament, the Gospels of Matthew and Mark records Jesus using Aramaic terms and phrases, while in Luke 4:16, he was shown reading Hebrew from the Bible at a synagogue.

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