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"english": "One who lends to his friend against collateral and the collateral is gone: [If] he told him \"I lent you a sela against it, and it was worth a shekel\" and the other says \"not so; rather, you lent me a sela against it and it was worth a sela\" […]",
"ref": "Mishna, שבועות, 6:7",
"text": "המלוה את חברו על המשכון ואבד המשכון אמר לו סלע הלויתיך עליו ושקל היה שוה והלה אומר לא כי אלא סלע הלויתני עליו וסלע היה שוה[…]",
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"english": "I went to the grocery store to buy a bag of milk because my mother asked me to.",
"roman": "halákhti lamakólet liknót sakít khaláv kí 'imí bik'shá miméni.",
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"ref": "Mishna, שבועות, 6:7",
"text": "המלוה את חברו על המשכון ואבד המשכון אמר לו סלע הלויתיך עליו ושקל היה שוה והלה אומר לא כי אלא סלע הלויתני עליו וסלע היה שוה[…]",
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"english": "The sun is in the east now, for this is the hour of its rising.",
"roman": "hashémesh nimtsét 'akhsháv bamizrákh, kí zóhi sh'át z'rikhatáh.",
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"text": "המורה הודיעה כי מחר יתקיים יום ספורט בית־ספרי.",
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"roman": "'al hashélet nikhtáv kí 'asúr l'hafría' 'et m'nukhát hadayarím bein 2 l'-4 batsohoráyim.",
"text": "על השלט נכתב כי אסור להפריע את מנוחת הדיירים בין 2 ל־4 בצהריים.",
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],
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[
"cauterization",
"cauterization"
],
[
"brand",
"brand"
]
]
}
],
"word": "כי"
}
{
"categories": [
"Hebrew entries with incorrect language header",
"Hebrew entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Hebrew lemmas",
"Hebrew masculine nouns",
"Hebrew noun entries missing plural construct forms",
"Hebrew noun entries missing plural forms",
"Hebrew noun entries missing singular construct forms",
"Hebrew nouns",
"he:Greek letter names"
],
"etymology_number": 4,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ar",
"2": "كُي",
"t": "ibis, pelican"
},
"expansion": "Arabic كُي (kuy, “ibis, pelican”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Compared with Arabic كُي (kuy, “ibis, pelican”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "כִּי",
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "kī",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"g": "m",
"head": "כִּי",
"tr": "kī"
},
"expansion": "כִּי • (kī) m",
"name": "he-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Hebrew",
"lang_code": "he",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Hebrew hapax legomena"
],
"glosses": [
"vulture"
],
"links": [
[
"vulture",
"vulture"
]
],
"qualifier": "dubious interpretation",
"raw_glosses": [
"(hapax, dubious interpretation) vulture"
]
}
],
"word": "כי"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Hebrew dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-24 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (82c8ff9 and f4967a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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