לְכָל הָרוּחוֹת Like any living language, Hebrew has plenty of ways of expressing frustration, the most widely used of which come from Arabic and English.

לְהוֹצִיא מֵהָרֹאשׁ Know that song “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” by Kylie Minogue? It got stuck in my head the other day. To

פְּלִיטַת פֶּה To emit – in Hebrew – is the simple verb לפלוט. Likewise, emission is פליטה, as in: שריפת פחם גורמת לפליטת חומר מסוכן

בּוֹא אִיתִּי Here’s a phrase we teach in our Level 1 course: בוא איתי – come with me. בוא means “come!”, while איתי means “with

עֵדָה, מוֹצָא אֶתְנִי In the Bible, עדה refers to a community. So does קהל, which today we use to mean audience – while קהילה is

פִּיקָּדוֹן The biblical root פ.ק.ד has several meanings: visiting, counting, remembering, commanding and even punishing. In Modern Hebrew, this root appears in words like מפקד

לְהִתְבַּכְיֵין To cry, in Hebrew, is the simple verb לבכות. Likewise, crying or weeping is בכי, a word that features beautifully in this Idan Raichel

סְתִירָה The simple verb לסתור originally meant to destroy that which was built. Today we use להרוס instead, as in: צריך להרוס את המבנה הישן

חוֹבְבָן The Hebrew word for hobby is תחביב, as in: מה התחביבים שלכם? What are your (plural) hobbies? The root of תחביב is ח.ב.ב, which