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Most common Hebrew words 1–500

500 words, in teaching order

Words 101–200
כְּדֵי
in order: specifies a purpose
Adverb
עֶצֶם
a thing, object; gist, essence; exact; self; substance
Masculine noun
אָדָם
man, human
Masculine noun
נֶגֶד
against; opposite
Preposition
כָּאן
Here, at this place.
Adjective
מָצָא
to find
Pa'al verb
קָרָא
to read; to call; to crow
Pa'al verb
יָשַׁב
to sit, to be in a position with the torso upright and the legs supported; to sit, to move into such a position; to settle, to establish a residence
Pa'al verb
אֲשֶׁר
Introduces a subordinate clause.; who, which; the thing which, the person who; that; Introduces an adverbial clause.; In conjunction with another subjunction.; so that, in order that
Conjunction
אֱנוֹשׁ
human, man, person, mortal
Masculine noun
הֵכִיל
To contain.
Hif'il verb
אָהַב
to love
Pa'al verb
אַתֶּם
You, y'all, you guys: the second-person masculine plural subject pronoun.
Pronoun
עָמַד
to stand (to support oneself on the feet in an erect position); to stand, to be located; to stand still, stop (to cease moving, remain motionless); to arise, appear (to come into action, being, or notice); to take a stand (against), stand up (to) (to oppose or resist); to endure, persist, persevere (to withstand adverse conditions); to delay, tarry (to put off until a later time); to be about to
Pa'al verb
לַ״י
=לירה ישראלית (líra yisra'elít): Israeli lira, Israeli pound, a former unit of currency in Israel.
Feminine noun
שָׂשׂ
to rejoice, be happy
Pa'al verb
לֵב
heart (a muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion); heart (the figurative seat of emotions, especially love); heart, core, center (the deepest, most central part of something); heart (a heart-shape); heart (a playing card of the suit hearts featuring one or more heart-shaped symbols)
Masculine noun
חֵלֶק
part, piece, portion, fraction; helek (a unit of time equal to an eighteenth of a minute (3⅓ seconds))
Masculine noun
אַחֲרֵי
after; behind
Preposition
צַד
A side.; A side, an aspect; a viewpoint.
Masculine noun
לְאַחַר
After, at a later time than.
Preposition
כָּתַב
to write
Pa'al verb
הֵבִיא
To bring.; to quote, to cite
Hif'il verb
שֵׁם
a name; a first name
Masculine noun
שׁוֹנֶה
Different (from): not the same (as).; With explicit point of comparison.; With implicit point of comparison.; Various: with plural subject, the elements of the subject being compared to each other.
Adjective
בְּיוֹתֵר
Most.; Quite, most.
Adverb
־ָה
to, toward, in the direction of, -ward; at, located in the direction of
Postposition
עָבַר
to pass, to cross; to pass; to spend, to pass; to pass, to not fail a test; to move (change residence); to undergo, experience, be subjected to
Pa'al verb
הִתְחִיל
to start, to begin; to hit on someone, make a move
Hif'il verb
נִמְצָא
to be found; to be discovered; to be present, to be located, to be situated; to turn out (become known or apparent)
Nif'al verb
כֹּחַ
Strength: the physical ability to do work, to lift something, to walk, and so on.; Strength, power: the quality of being strong or powerful.; Force, a force.; Power, ability, capacity.; Capital, property, wealth.; Validity, value, force.; A force, such as a military force or a police force.; A monitor lizard; power, authority (a type of angel)
Masculine noun
עוֹלָם
world: (the) Earth, (the) globe.; world: the states and nations of the world.; A world: an area, a field of study.; Ever, eternity.; A world: the entirety of a person's life and experience.
Masculine noun
הַיּוֹם
today
Adverb
אַחֲרוֹן
last (final)
Adjective
מִשְׁפָּחָה
family (a group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; in particular, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family); family (a category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank)
Feminine noun
לָקַח
to take (grasp with the hands); to take (carry somewhere, remove); to take (get possession of); to take (last or expend an amount of time); to take (ingest or inject a drug); to take (enroll in a course of study); to take (capture a photograph); to take as a wife
Pa'al verb
מַשֶּׁהוּ
something; anything
Pronoun
כָּזֶה
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see כ־, זה.; such (literally, "like so"; emphasizes the following adjective with emotional involvement)
Adverb
אִשָּׁה
woman (an adult female human); wife (a married woman, especially in relation to her spouse); a female animal
Feminine noun
שָׁעָה
hour (a unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes)); time
Feminine noun
יְהוּדִי
Jewish: being a Jew, or relating to Jews or Judaism.; Judahite (pertaining to the Tribe of Judah)
Adjective
אוּלַי
maybe
Adverb
חֹק
law, statute; rule; chok, a Jewish religious rule which doesn't have a rational explanation
Masculine noun
אַף
nose; the region of the nose, the face; nostril; anger, wrath
Masculine noun
עִיר
city
Feminine noun
חַי
alive; living, live; lively; raw
Adjective
כַּאֲשֶׁר
when, as, at the time that (frequenly preceded by a disjunctive וַיְהִי in Biblical Hebrew); like, as
Conjunction
שָׁמַע
to hear, to be able to hear; to listen
Pa'al verb
עִנְיָן
interest, something one finds interesting; matter, issue; business
Masculine noun
חָזַר
to return (to come back after some period of time, or at regular intervals); to repeat.
Pa'al verb
קָרָה
To happen, occur, go on.
Pa'al verb
בִּקֵּשׁ
to ask for, request; to seek, strive for
Pi'el verb
מִסְפָּר
A number, a numeral: a cardinal or ordinal number (especially the former).; A number: several.; A number: a name or symbol composed of digits.
Masculine noun
מַמָּשׁ
really, very, truly; precisely, exactly, specifically
Adverb
נִרְאָה
be seen; seem, appear, be thought of or viewed (a certain way)
Nif'al verb
מַצָּב
a shape, a situation, a state
Masculine noun
אֲפִלּוּ
even (emphasizing comparison or extreme example)
Preposition
בֶּאֱמֶת
really, in truth
Adverb
מִשְׁפָּט
A trial: a legal proceeding before a court.; Law: a body of laws or commandments, taken collectively.; A judgment, verdict, ruling: the ruling of a court.; Justice, righteousness, just and righteous action.; sentence (a grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied); A theorem: a mathematical claim that can be proven.
Masculine noun
אֶפְשָׁר
Possible: being a possibility; not impossible.; Possible, permitted, allowed.
Adjective
הָפַךְ
To turn about, to turn over, to invert, to flip, to change.; To become.
Pa'al verb
שֹׁהַם
onyx (a banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz)
Masculine noun
עֲדַיִן
Still, yet.
Adverb
קָטָן
Little, small, diminutive.; Little, young.; Little, insignificant, unimportant.
Adjective
שִׁנָּה
to change, to alter; to matter, to make a difference
Pi'el verb
מִלְחָמָה
war, battle
Feminine noun
בִּיֵּם
to stage, to produce
Pi'el verb
אָב
father (a male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, etc.)); ancestor; progenitor; originator; prototype
Masculine noun
מֶמְשָׁלָה
A government.; governance; rule; reign.
Feminine noun
עָזַר
to help, to assist
Pa'al verb
אֶלָּא
but, except
Conjunction
קָשֶׁה
hard (resistant to pressure); hard (difficult); hard (demanding a lot of effort to endure); hard-boiled (of eggs); serious, heavy: major, non-trivial
Adjective
תָּמִיד
Always, regularly.
Adverb
פֹּה
here, this place, at this place, in this place
Adverb
נִסָּה
to try, to attempt; to test; to try out
Pi'el verb
לְפִי־
According to, per.
Preposition
קְבוּצָה
group; team; set; collective farmstead, from which the kibbutz commune developed.
Feminine noun
־וֹ
him, it: indicates the object of a preposition; his, its: indicates the possessor of a singular construct noun
Pronoun
גִּדּוּל
growing, growth; tumor; crop
Masculine noun
תְּקוּפָה
An era, age, epoch, period.; epoch (a geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs))
Feminine noun
הָעוֹלָם
the world: singular definite form of עוֹלָם (olám).
Noun
פִּי
Multiplicative particle: followed by a number to indicate multiplication by that number; times; -fold; multiplied by
Particle
זוֹ
This.
Determiner
בִּמְקוֹם
Instead of, in lieu of, in place of.
Preposition
נִשְׁאַר
to stay, to remain; to be left
Nif'al verb
נִכְנַס
To enter; to go in or come in [with ל־ (l'-) ‘to’].; To enter (a state) [with ל־ (l'-) ‘to’].; To bump into, to collide (someone or something) [with ב־ (b'-) ‘in’].; To work in (to work out using a machine in between the sets of someone who is already using that machine)
Nif'al verb
הִכִּיר
To know (someone), to recognize, to be familiar with (someone or something), to meet.; To recognize (a country or legal entity).
Hif'il verb
פָּתַח
to open (something); to start
Pa'al verb
הַאִם
Interrogative particle: starts a yes-or-no question.
Particle
בְּעָיָה
problem
Feminine noun
עֲבוּר
because of, for, for the sake of, in order to
Preposition
שָׂם
to put, place; to turn on (music, television, radio, etc.); to put on, don (gloves)
Pa'al verb
יְהוּדִי
Jew, Jewish person; Judahite (member of the Tribe of Judah)
Masculine noun
סוֹף
An end, a finish.
Masculine noun
מַעֲרֶכֶת
set (a group of things that go together); system; apparatus, staff; phylum
Feminine noun
מִישֶׁהוּ
someone, somebody; anyone, anybody
Pronoun
חַיָּב
obligated, required, bound, must; owing, having a debt; guilty, culpable
Adjective
בַּעַל
master, owner; husband (a man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse)
Masculine noun
הִמְשִׁיךְ
To continue, to still do.
Hif'il verb