Resources · Tools

Free tools for Hebrew learners: dictionaries, verb tables, vowels and flashcards

The six tabs a Hebrew learner keeps open. Free unless it says otherwise.

Picked and annotated by the teachers of the Israeli Hebrew Institute. Every entry links to the people who made it; nothing here is hosted by us. How this list is put together.

• Pealim

  BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedfree

  Every Hebrew verb in every tense, person and binyan, with vowels. Type the form you heard and it tells you the root. The one tool we tell every student to bookmark.

  pealim.com ↗

• Morfix

  מורפיקס
  BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedfree

  The Hebrew–English dictionary Israelis themselves use. Gender, part of speech, example sentences, and it understands a word with its prefixes attached.

  morfix.co.il ↗

• Milog

  מילוג
  IntermediateAdvancedfree

  A Hebrew–Hebrew dictionary. The day you can read a definition in Hebrew is the day you stop translating in your head.

  milog.co.il ↗

• Reverso Context

  IntermediateAdvancedfreemium

  Type a word or a phrase and see it inside real sentences from films and the web, in both languages. The fastest way to learn which preposition goes with which verb.

  Hebrew–English ↗

• Nakdan: add the vowels

  נקדן

  Dicta

  BeginnerIntermediatefree

  Paste any Hebrew text and it puts the vowel points in. A song lyric, a news headline, a WhatsApp from an Israeli friend: readable in one click.

  nakdan.dicta.org.il ↗

• The Academy of the Hebrew Language

  האקדמיה ללשון העברית
  Advancedfree

  The official body that decides what a word is in Hebrew. Their site answers the questions Israelis argue about at dinner, and their new-words list is a joy.

  hebrew-academy.org.il ↗

• Language Reactor

  IntermediateAdvancedfreemium

  A browser extension that shows two subtitle tracks at once on Netflix and YouTube, Hebrew and English, and lets you replay one line. Turns the series above into lessons.

  The extension ↗

• Anki

  BeginnerIntermediateAdvancedfree on desktop and Android

  Flashcards that come back just before you forget them. Put the words from this page in, ten a day, and they stay.

  apps.ankiweb.net ↗

• Duolingo, Hebrew course

  Beginnerfreemium

  Good at two things: the alphabet, and the daily habit. Bad at the thing that matters, which is being understood by a person. Use it for the first, come to a person for the second.

  The course ↗

• A Hebrew keyboard on your phone

  Beginnerfree

  Two minutes that change everything: once you can type Hebrew, you can look up what you hear, text an Israeli, and search the songs on this page.

  iPhone: Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard → Hebrew. Android: Settings → System → Languages & input → On-screen keyboard → Gboard → Languages → Hebrew. Then hold the globe key to switch.