In Hebrew: ‘Frozen’
A daily dose of Hebrew.
Published: February 18th, 2013
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קָפוּא 
If you’re like me and like warm weather, raise your hand.
The Hebrew word for frozen is קָפוּא
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קפוא comes from the active-simple פָּעַל intransitive verb to freeze – לִקְפּוֹא.
For example:
הָאֲגָם קָפָא. The lake froze. and
קָפָאתִי מִקּוֹר. I froze from (the) cold. Mind you, that’s to freeze – just to freeze. But to freeze something else – that’s לְהַקְפִּיא, an active-causative הִפְעִיל transitive verb.
For example:
הָרוּחַ הִקְפִּיאָה אֶת הַמַּיִם הַמְּטַפְטְפִים. The wind froze the dripping water.
Likewise, a מַקְפִּיא is a freezer.
Here’s a song by Danny Sanderson with the word קפוא in it. Enjoy!
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What happened to the sound? The blog on the word "Warmth" there was no sound. In this blog there was sound for a couple of minutes and then it went off. The learning process gets cut over 50% without sound.