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Most common Hebrew words 1–500

500 words, in teaching order

Words 1–100
שֶׁל
Of, belonging to, owned by, pertaining to.
Preposition
אַתְּ
You, thou: (the feminine singular second-person personal pronoun).
Pronoun
לֹא
Not; used in negating verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
Adverb
עַל
on, on top of; on; about; must; by (used to separate dimensions, when describing the size of something.)
Preposition
הָיָה
to be; to exist; connects a noun to a prepositional phrase or adjective describing it; connects a term to its definition; connects a subject to a role the subject plays; to happen, take place, occur
Pa'al verb
זֶה
this, this one.; it (for a content clause in subject position or as complement of a preposition)
Pronoun
כֹּל
All, whole, entirety, everything; found almost exclusively in singular definite and singular construct forms; used to translate English all, each, every, everything, and so on.
Masculine noun
הוּא
he; Used as a copula: is.
Pronoun
אֲנִי
I (first person nominative singular pronoun, masculine and feminine)
Pronoun
לְ־
To; indicating a destination or end-point.; Indicating the destination of movement.; Indicating the second end-point of a range or interval.; To, for; corresponding to an English indirect object or a Latin dative.; Indicating the recipient of a transfer.; Indicating the addressee of an utterance.; Indicating the beneficiary of an action.; Indicating the person or thing affected by an action.; Introducing an ethical dative, especially after a verb of motion.; Of; indicating a possessor.; …
Preposition
אֵת
Used to introduce a semantically definite direct object.; To, with.
Preposition
עִם
With: used to indicate togetherness, being together.; And also.; Near to, next to; With, among, at the place of, in the same place as.; At the same time.; For.; Against.
Preposition
מָה
what; that which, the thing that; that (followed by שֶׁ־); what, which
Pronoun
גַּם
Also, too, additionally; used to connect details in a list.; Also, additionally, in addition, further, besides, on top of that.; Even (though, if); despite the fact that.
Adverb
בְּ־
In (a place or time).; With; By means of, using; In a manner characterized by (in English usually rendered by an adverb); While, during.; Among.; On (a medium of communication).; To the power of: Indicating an exponent.
Preposition
הִיא
she, it; Used as an intensifier for a third-person singular feminine subject.
Pronoun
זֶה
this
Determiner
אִם
if, whether; in case, if; or
Conjunction
יֵשׁ
there is or are; there exist(s); see usage notes below.; someone/something has; see usage notes below.; it is important or necessary (to do something).
Adverb
אֵין
There is not, there are not: used in expressing non-existence in the present tense.; Used in expressing non-possession in the present tense.; With a definite object.; Not, is not, are not: a negative present-tense copula.; Used uninflected, preceding the subject.; With incorporated personal pronoun, preceding the predicate.
Particle
אוֹ
Or.; Either.
Conjunction
אֲבָל
but; however, though
Conjunction
אָמַר
to say, tell; to intend; to mean
Pa'al verb
בַּיִת
house; school; stanza (a unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse); verse (part of a song); the Temple; household; family; byte
Masculine noun
עָשָׂה
To do (to perform an action, to accomplish a thing).; To make; to create.; To make (to cause to be).; To say (to utter).; To do (to have sex with).
Pa'al verb
כִּי
because, for, since; that; used to introduce declarative content clauses; when, as, at the time that; rather, but, but rather; used to introduce a clause correcting a previous one; that, so that; used to introduce a real or imagined result clause
Conjunction
שָׁנָה
year (the time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution around the Sun); year (the time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body)
Feminine noun
דָּבָר
thing; speech; word (unit of language)
Masculine noun
רַק
only; however, nonetheless; indeed, truly
Adverb
כָּךְ
Such, so, thus, in this way, in that way.
Adverb
אַתָּה
you, thou (second-person singular masculine)
Pronoun
הָלַךְ
to walk, go, especially on foot; to happen, go on; to go away, depart; gone, wasted, damaged in an irreparable manner; going to (used in forming the near future)
Pa'al verb
יוֹתֵר
more; anymore (with a preceding negation)
Adverb
בֵּין
between, among, amid
Preposition
מִ־
From, of, from inside.; Introducing a noun or other nominal.; Introducing a prepositional phrase or other adverbial.; Than, more than.; Without, without the existence or presence of.; Because of, due to, for.; Used to construe various verbs.
Preposition
רָאָה
To see, to have vision; figuratively, to perceive.; To observe, look at; figuratively, to consider.
Pa'al verb
הֵם
they (the third-person masculine plural personal pronoun, masculine plural of הוא (hu')); those, yon (the masculine plural distant demonstrative pronoun, masculine plural of הוא (hu')); are (a masculine plural present-tense copula, masculine plural of הוא (hu'))
Pronoun
יָכֹל
can, to be able to
Pa'al verb
כְּמוֹ
like, as
Preposition
טוֹב
good, fair, fine; kind
Adjective
יוֹם
Day: the period between dawn and dusk.; A day: a unit of time corresponding to the period of Earth's rotation.; Daylight.; A time period from a nightfall until the following nightfall
Masculine noun
אָז
So, therefore, then, thus.; Then, next.; Then, at that time.; So, so anyway: used to introduce a question or topic, or to return to a previous topic.
Adverb
אַל
not, do not
Adverb
יָדַע
To know (a fact).; To know how (to do something).; To know (a person or place).; To know, to have sex with.
Pa'al verb
בֵּן
son; A direct male descendant.; A guy, a boy.; Possessor of (knowledge, ability, etc.); Used in expressing the age of a man, a boy, or the referent of a masculine noun: age, aged.
Masculine noun
עַד
Until, till, up until (a time).; By (a time): before or on.; To: used in expressing a range.
Preposition
צָרִיךְ
Needing, in need of (something).; Needing to, having to, obligated to (do something), should.
Adjective
הִגִּיעַ
to arrive, to get, to reach; to be deserved, to serve someone right
Hif'il verb
שָׁלָה
to pull out, to draw out (from a liquid)
Pa'al verb
רָצָה
To want.; accept, choose
Pa'al verb
מִי
who, what person or persons; the person or persons that
Pronoun
נָתַן
to give; to allow, permit, let; to put, place; to turn into
Pa'al verb
לוּ
if (used in forming counterfactual conditionals); if only, I wish (of a wish deemed unattainable or unlikely)
Conjunction
עוֹד
still, longer, more; no longer, no more, any longer (signifies that an action which began in the past is uninterruptedly ongoing in the present situation); again, once more (sometimes preceded by הוֹסִיף in Biblical Hebrew); again and again, repeatedly; also, additionally, furthermore
Adverb
הַזֶּה
this: masculine singular definite of זֶה (ze)
Determiner
שָׁם
there (somewhere at some distance from the speaker)
Adverb
בָּא
To come.; To want (Used in expressing an unintentional or spontaneous desire); let us/let's; used with the first-person-plural future-tense form of a verb to produce its cohortative.; To enter, to go in.; to copulate, to have sex
Pa'al verb
רִאשׁוֹן
first; earliest; best
Adjective
יָד
arm; hand; forelimb (anterior limb); yad (a pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading); hand foul; power, strength, authority; handle; monument (memorial structure), shrine
Feminine noun
אוֹתוֹ
The same.
Determiner
לִפְנֵי
before, in advance of, prior to; before, in front of, facing; ago
Preposition
כֵּן
yes; thus, so
Adverb
אֶחָד
one
Numeric
חָבֵר
A (male) friend.; A (male) fellow, associate, companion, comrade.; A boyfriend.; A (male) member; comrade (male)
Masculine noun
אַחֵר
other, further; different, unusual
Adjective
יָצָא
To go out (of, from), come out (of, from), exit (from), leave, depart, get out (of, from).; To come out, come away.; To come out, result, be produced.; To come out, turn out to be.; To be exempt (from), to have satisfied one's obligations (regarding).
Pa'al verb
חַיִּים
life (period during which one is alive); life (state of being alive); life (the process of life, all biological life)
Noun
רֹאשׁ
head; head, chief, leader, chairperson; head, beginning, start; the top, or leading part.; headcount; census; primary: first, beginning; The more succulent, aroma-rich part of a plant, brush or tree bark.; hemlock
Masculine noun
דֶּרֶךְ
a road, a path, a way; a journey; a custom
Feminine noun
קִבֵּל
To receive, to get.; To accept.
Pi'el verb
אֶרֶץ
country, land; territory, district, region; Earth (the third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live); ground, soil; Israel
Feminine noun
סֵפֶר
book; a writing
Masculine noun
יֶלֶד
a (male) child, a (male) kid, a boy (a male child); a son (a person's (male) offspring or occasionally, kin [see usage note regarding the plural]); a child (an immature adult); used of a (male) peer of one's own age group
Masculine noun
חֹדֶשׁ
month; new moon, the day of the new moon
Masculine noun
כַּמָּה
How much, how many.; several, a few, some; (uncountable referents) some
Determiner
זְמַן
time (inevitable passing of events); a time (duration of time); a time (measurement of a quantity of time); a tense (verb form distinguishing time); an era, times
Masculine noun
עֲבוֹדָה
worship, service; work, job, labor; work
Feminine noun
מְדִינָה
state (sovereign polity); state (division of a federation); province, district
Feminine noun
וָלֹא
or else
Conjunction
דִּבֵּר
to speak (say words)
Pi'el verb
כְּבָר
Already: before now, or before then.; Already: very soon.; Already: as early as.; Indicates an impatient request: already, at once.
Adverb
מָקוֹם
place (location or position); standing place, station, post, office; place, place of human abode; city, land, region; place, locality, spot; space, room, distance; region, quarter, direction; place, stead, lieu; the Omnipresent, God
Masculine noun
פַּעַם
A time: an instance, an occurrence.; A step, a footstep, a pace: an instance of stepping with the foot.; A stroke, a beat, as a heartbeat.; Once, at one time, in the past.
Feminine noun
חָשַׁב
to think
Pa'al verb
אֵיךְ
how; the manner in which, the way how; way, manner (followed by שֶׁ־)
Adverb
בַּת
daughter; a direct female descendant; a girl, a gal; Used in expressing the age of a woman, a girl, or the referent of a feminine noun: age, aged.
Feminine noun
אֻחַד
to be united
Pu'al verb
גָּדוֹל
big, large; great, important
Adjective
עָלָה
To ascend, rise, go up; to move from a point to a higher point.; To cost.; To grow.; To rise in standing; to progress in a social or other figurative ladder.; To develop.; To mount (a horse), to board (a plane), to enter (a street via a junction), etc.; To make aliyah, to immigrate to Israel.; To come, appear, show up, arrive.; synonym of עלה לרגל (make pilgrimage, visit a holy site); To depart for battle.
Pa'al verb
רַב
Many, much.; Great.; Enough: more than is needed.
Adjective
עָבַד
to work, labor; to work, operate, function; to work on, convince, improve; to worship; to dupe, deceive, trick, bullshit, mess with, be played
Pa'al verb
לֹא
No; used in responding to questions.
Interjection
לָמָּה
why, for what reason; for which reason; the reason for which; because
Adverb
מְאוֹד
Very, quite.
Adverb
אִישׁ
A man, adult male human being.; husband (a man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse)
Masculine noun
אֲנַחְנוּ
We; the subject form of the first-person plural personal pronoun.
Pronoun
הֵבִין
To understand, to have understanding, to be one who understands.
Hif'il verb
אַךְ
But.
Conjunction