An exploration of Hebrew roots, shorashim, that draws from a a wide range of sources--biblical and Rabbinic texts, contemporary authors, and a diverse collection of Israeli Hebrew: newspapers, advertising slogans, slang and graffiti.
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I think this book is interesting because it gives many forms and possibilities for Hebrew root words.
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Hebrew shares with Arabic a logical organization around three-letter roots. Languages like English have a little bit of this: it's easy to see both a letter-relationship and a meaning-relationship between, say, the two words "lunar" and "lunatic." But in Hebrew, the *whole language* is built around these relationships: they're not just incidental they way they are in English. This makes Hebrew vocabulary easy to learn and remember, because lots of words flow from each root, following more-or-less... more info
