The Hebrew word for uncle is dod דוד (aunt is doda דודה). It is also a biblical word for lover. What's the connection between the two?...

There's a certain Hebrew kinship term that I've been putting off writing about because it's rather complicated. So I thought I...

The Hebrew word for brother-in-law is גיס - gis , and sister-in-law is גיסה - gisa . Klein takes the conservative view, and writes: Aramaic-...

While some of the kinship terms we've looked at so far have changed their meanings over time, we haven't seen a basic term that nee...

We've discussed ach and achot - brother and sister. Now lets look at a word for a subset of siblings - twins. The Hebrew word for twin...

Continuing in this series, let's look at the Hebrew words for brother and sister - ach אח and achot אחות. (The generic word for "...

After discussing av and em , lets discuss the more generic term for mother and father: horim הורים - "parents". An informal surv...

I'd like to start a new series about kinship terms. I've written about some of them before, and you can find all of them by clicking...

In my last (real) post , I discussed the origin of the word soda, and its derivative sodium. Well, have you ever noticed that the chemical s...

When I started this site over two years ago, I often wrote a post daily. Since then, my knowledge in the field has increased, and with that ...

We're now at the last of the posts on the PaRDeS words, and we'll be discussing the word sod סוד. Unlike remez which doesn't a...

The next word in our series of PaRDeS words is derash דרש -'interpretation" or "exegesis". The root דרש is unlike the pr...