I'm sure you can think of words that come from Hebrew or Yiddish — religious words like rabbi and torah, food words like bagel and latke, cultural words like chutzpah and verklempt. But there's a very ...

To mark Tuesday’s annual Hebrew Language Day, the Academy of the Hebrew Language has announced its word of 2024: “hostages.” However, in more modern times, the Academy said, the word hatuf has been ...

In many languages, the words for father and mother — being the first words a baby utters — are quite similar, and they include the labial consonants b, p, m; or dental d, t, n; as papa, dad, (Czech) ...

It was my senior year of college, and I had room for one elective. As a dedicated Bible Christian, I had a strong desire to learn the original languages of the Scriptures, and I jumped at the chance ...

Android/iOS: Learning to read, write, and speak languages with their own character sets can be challenging to those of us used to roman lettering, but Word Fireworks turns it into a game that’s not ...

For word nerds, the Book of Esther contains a special treat — the longest word in the Tanakh. Technically, v’ha’achshadrapanim and its eleven letters makes it the length champion of the entire Hebrew ...

For 24 years, literary scholar Robert Alter has been working on a new translation of the Hebrew Bible and — "this may shock some of your listeners," he warns — he's been working on it by hand. "I'm ...