Words, Roots and Their meanings.

Ofer S. Beit-Halachmi

How to Say Virus in Hebrew: What's God Got to Do With It?

In 1892 the Russian biologist Dmitri Ivanovsky filtered crushed leaf extracts from infected tobacco plants and suggested that the...

Ofer S. Beit-Halachmi

The Meaning of the Heart in the Bible - Inside and Out

What is the original meaning of the word Heart in the Bible? How do we understand a word that is thousands of years old?

Ofer S. Beit-Halachmi

The Surprising History of "Hebrew".

Hebrew עִבְרִית Ivrit‎, as you know, is the name of a language. Is it really?