Numbers מספרים
22 Hebrew words on numbers — with pictures, native audio and example sentences. From 0 to a million.
| Image | English | Hebrew | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
![]() | zero | אפס | Also slang for a nobody: הוא אפס = 'he's a loser'. |
![]() | one | אחד | ⚠️ GenderFeminine אחת. Unlike every other number, 'one' comes after the noun: ילד אחד = one boy. |
![]() | two | שתיים | ⚠️ GenderMasculine שניים. Before a noun both shorten: שתי בנות, שני בנים. |
![]() | three | שלוש | ⚠️ GenderMasculine שלושה. The feminine form is also the one used for plain counting. |
![]() | four | ארבע | ⚠️ GenderMasculine ארבעה: ארבעה ימים = four days. |
![]() | five | חמש | ⚠️ GenderMasculine חמישה. 🔗 RootThe same digit returns in חמש עשרה (15) and חמישים (50). |
![]() | six | שש | ⚠️ GenderMasculine שישה. |
![]() | seven | שבע | ⚠️ GenderMasculine שבעה. 🔗 Rootשבוע (a week) is seven days — the same root. |
![]() | eight | שמונה | ⚠️ GenderMasculine and feminine are spelled alike; only the stress differs — shmoné (f.) / shmona (m.). |
![]() | nine | תשע | ⚠️ GenderMasculine תשעה. |
![]() | ten | עשר | ⚠️ GenderMasculine עשרה. 🔗 RootHiding inside the teens (חמש עשרה) and inside עשרים (twenty). |
![]() | eleven | אחת עשרה | Literally 'one-ten'. ⚠️ GenderMasculine אחד עשר. |
![]() | twelve | שתים עשרה | ⚠️ IrregularIn this compound the spelling loses a yod: שתים, not שתיים. ⚠️ GenderMasculine שנים עשר. |
![]() | fifteen | חמש עשרה | Teens are unit + עשרה. ⚠️ GenderMasculine חמישה עשר. |
![]() | twenty | עשרים | 🔗 RootFrom עשר (ten). Round tens have one form for both genders — only the units below twenty agree. |
![]() | twenty-one | עשרים ואחת | Literally 'twenty and-one' — the unit attaches with ו־. ⚠️ GenderWith a masculine noun: עשרים ואחד. |
![]() | thirty | שלושים | 🔗 RootTens are the digit plus ־ים: שלוש ← שלושים. |
![]() | forty | ארבעים | 🔗 Rootארבע plus the ־ים ending. One form for both genders. |
![]() | fifty | חמישים | 🔗 RootFrom חמש, spelled with a yod — echoing חמישה. |
![]() | hundred | מאה | 100. The dual מאתיים is 200, and the plural מאות is hundreds. |
![]() | thousand | אלף | 1,000. The dual אלפיים is 2,000. |
![]() | million | מיליון | ⚠️ IrregularA loanword, and it stays singular after a number: שני מיליון = two million. |





















