אֶחָד · שְׁנַיִם · שָׁלוֹשׁ
ORIGINALBH-054
Biblical Hebrew · Nouns, Describing Words, Number, and “X of Y”
One, two, three
BH-054Biblical HebrewMasoretic Hebrew of Tanakh
ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST
אֶחָד · שְׁנַיִם · שָׁלוֹשׁ
Transliterationeḥad · shenayim · shalosh
Plain meaningone · two · three
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
One, two, three
Hebrew number words change form according to gender and construction. Begin with the basic shapes and then learn the forms attached to real nouns. “One” behaves more like an adjective than the higher numerals; “two” has special forms; three through ten introduce the famous gender pattern that must be learned in examples.
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eḥad · shenayim · shalosh
READINGApproved transliteration
one · two · three
MEANINGBiblical Hebrew
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