The two Hebrew words, פֶּרֶךְ perekh and פָּרֹכֶת parokhet , look like they should be related. But are they? The word פֶּרֶךְ appears six t...

The verb טָבַל taval  appears 16 times in the Tanakh . In almost all of them, it means "to dip, to immerse" (something in a liquid...

The Hebrew root שקע shaka means "to sink [down], submerge, depress." It only appears six times as a verb in the Tanakh , and once...

The Hebrew word for "frog", צְפַרְדֵּעַ tzfardea , appears 13 times in the Tanakh . All of them are related to the plague in Egypt...

When we think of the word גְּאֻלָּה geula - we typically think of a divine redemption or salvation, perhaps with a messianic bent. It could ...

The phrase דֶּרֶךְ אֶרֶץ derekh eretz  appears hundreds of times in rabbinic literature. Literally meaning "the way of the world,"...

The root (or perhaps better to say roots) ענה anah is generally said to have four meanings in Hebrew. Klein identifies them as follows::  a...