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While responsa is referred to in Hebrew as She'alot uTeshuvot, or SHuT (שו״ת = שאלות ותשובות), it occurs to me that I've never seen the former so designated in Hebrew text. … Is there a Hebrew name for the genre of literature that is termed "Codes" in English? …

It is pronounced elohim hu elohim sheli, but it sounds strange and tautological in Hebrew. … There are Hebrew names that mean approximately the same thing, like Yoel (Joel in English) and Eliyahu (Elijah). …

I don't know if this is the right forum to ask this, but I would like to find audio tracks of Jews from different Ashkenazi communities speaking Hebrew (be they leyning, davening, discoursing or merely … incorporating Hebrew words into their regular speech). …

I have found this word a few times in the Satmar Rebbe's Divrei Yoel (such as here, for example, in Parshat Metzora'). I am assuming that it is an acronym, rather than a transliterated Yiddish word, b …

I think that the most straightforward answer to this question would be to suggest that, in Rabbinic Hebrew, קן ("nest") is also used metonymically to refer to the bird itself. …

With respect to your friend, the fact that shabbat pluralises as shabbatot is itself insufficient for demonstrating that it's a feminine word. Lots of masculine words take that plural - such as אבות, …

Notwithstanding the fact that the word might possess a slightly different range of meanings in different contexts, the root of the word (חבב) means "love" or "embrace" and the noun (חביבות) is an abst …

If you consult Ada Yardeni's The Book of Hebrew Script (The British Library, 2002), you'll see that the shape of Hebrew letters has been evolving over the millennia. … According to The Hebrew Book: An Historical Survey (ed. R. Posner and I. Ta-Shema; Jerusalem: Keter, 1975), Hebrew printing only began in Italy in 1475. …

To add a little information to that which has already been presented, the ancient translations all interpret Tishbi as denoting his residence in a particular place. The precise name of that place, how …

I have heard it said before that Chazal (חז"ל = חכמינו זכרונם לברכה; "our sages of blessed memory") refers to sages of the Mishna and Gemara, while Razal (רז"ל = רבנים/נו זכרונם לברכה; "our/the rabbon …

Sources: Joüon and Muraoka, A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew (2nd edition; Gregorian and Biblical Press, 2009), §44e-f E. Kautzsch (ed.), Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (Revised by A.E. … O'Connor, An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1990), §31.7-31.7.1 …

The Bartenura, in his commentary to Kelim 27:3, notes that the rules concerning the admixture of cloth with sack, sack with leather and leather with matting only apply to those specific combinations a …

This is more of a Hebrew grammar question than anything else, but there are at least ten different meanings that this particular particle (represented by the letter, bet) might have: 1) Spatial - ie: … Choi, A Guide to Biblical Hebrew Syntax (Cambridge University Press, 2003), 102-106. Your example (תמשול־בו), is like #4 above: an adversative use of the particle. …

Your question is a little confusing: are you asking about stress or about vowel quality? So far as stress is concerned, the phrase is pronounced vedibarTA BAM, with a stress on the final syllable of t …

In explaining the Mishna, the Bartenura often clarifies obscure words by providing a cognate word in either Hebrew or Aramaic - the latter usually taken from the Targum, but sometimes from the Bavli or …