Comments on: Ridiculous Hebrew Tattoo

By: Carla

Carla — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:32:39 +0000

Hi would someone please please PLEASE translate “forever young” into Hebrew! I am getting a tattoo of this. I think it is צעיר לנצח but i want some more sources before i make such a commitment.

By: henry

henry — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:26:14 +0000

can someone translate to hebrew the phrase

The Lord’s Blessing.

many thanks.
henry

By: Simon Holloway

Simon Holloway — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:41:13 +0000

If you would like to ask me questions regarding translations for a tattoo, you can email me at yahaduth@gmail.com.

By: jane

jane — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:08:32 +0000

could some please translate the name “gabriel” into hebrew for me???thanx

By: Tim Bull

Tim Bull — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:33:50 +0000

Thanks for that. It looks like semiotics seems to be far more interesting than engineering is, might be and might not be feel a lot more comfortable than a definate is or is not.

חנוכה שמח

By: Simon Holloway

Simon Holloway — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:58:44 +0000

Firstly, there are a number of different ways of conveying anything and you need to choose a collocation that appeals to you. I think that לעולם גם יש לב sounds pretty messy. For a start, you do need the ל-prefix on עולם if you want to denote possession – but you don’t actually need יש. You could write:

גם לעולם לב
לעולם גם לב
לב גם לעולם

There is a certain pleasing rhyme in the words גם and לעולם and you might want to exploit that. Otherwise, it’s really a question of personal taste. But be warned: לעולם also means “forever”, which might make the tattoo mean something like “hearts are also eternal”. You could disambiguate by adding vocalisation (la’olam, rather than le’olam) or you could use a different noun (לתבל, לארץ). Neither of those latter two options sound as good to me.

By: Tim Bull

Tim Bull — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:43:39 +0000

I am one of the people researching Hebrew for a tattoo and everywhere I go I get different answers. Even with my exceedingly limited knowledge of Hebrew and its grammatical structure I can see some of the translations are just plain wrong. I am looking to translate the phrase “The world has a heart too” and the closest I can get is “For the world also has a heart” (לעולם גם יש לב) as I am informed that גם wouldn’t appear at the end of a sentence. Also I want to get to the bottom of why לעולם is more preferable than העולם “for the world” as opposed to “the world” or could it be “the the world”. Please advise.

By: Simon Holloway

Simon Holloway — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:53:25 +0000

Yes, I saw that in his book, Fixing God’s Torah. He mentions that idea in his introduction, if I remember correctly… Do you think that he would suggest that רוח הקודש has something to do with the Temple as well?

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:43:26 +0000

The difference in meaning between “הקודש” and “הקדוש” is an interesting one. While teaching me, Barry Levy made the suggestion that “הקודש” may actually be a reference to the מקדש… It makes some interesting changes to the meaning of “ספרי הקודש מטמאין את הידים” and related discussions…

By: Simon Holloway

Simon Holloway — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:48:29 +0000

I don’t think that would work… “He will bear it”, in Biblical Hebrew, would be ישא. The root of the verb is actually √נשא, but the נ disappears and doubles the ש.