Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective
Monday, August 18, 2025

where I've been writing lately

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted here on Balashon. But I haven’t stopped writing about Hebrew and language. For some time now, I’ve been ...
Wednesday, April 02, 2025

ghibli and kibel

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The latest viral internet trend is creating AI-generated images in the style of Studio Ghibli. You've very likely seen them by now—or m...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

leitzan and mukion

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Let's look at two Hebrew words for clown - לֵיצָן leitzan  and מוּקְיוֹן mukion .  Leitzan is the more common of the two, so we'll s...
Monday, November 25, 2024

inbal

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A reader asked about an Israeli grape juice called Inbalim  ענבלים. I presume this is the brand: He asked why the juice had that name.  I do...
Sunday, September 01, 2024

Elul

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The Hebrew month of Elul אֱלוּל begins this week, so let's look at its etymology. As with the other names of the months in the current H...
Sunday, August 25, 2024

kartis

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Rabbi David Bashevkin (of the enjoyable 18Forty podcast) recently posted on his Substack an essay entitled " The Revival of Hebrew ....
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

zonda

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The Hebrew word for "feeding tube" (or more technically a nasogastric or orogastric tube) is זוֹנְדָּה zonda . This is clearly not...
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