Hebrew Vocabulary Basic level

Numbers מספרים

22 Hebrew words on numbers — with pictures, native audio and example sentences. From 0 to a million.

Numbers
ImageEnglishHebrewNote
zerozeroאפס
Also slang for a nobody: הוא אפס = 'he's a loser'.
oneoneאחד
⚠️ GenderFeminine אחת. Unlike every other number, 'one' comes after the noun: ילד אחד = one boy.
twotwoשתיים
⚠️ GenderMasculine שניים. Before a noun both shorten: שתי בנות, שני בנים.
threethreeשלוש
⚠️ GenderMasculine שלושה. The feminine form is also the one used for plain counting.
fourfourארבע
⚠️ GenderMasculine ארבעה: ארבעה ימים = four days.
fivefiveחמש
⚠️ GenderMasculine חמישה. 🔗 RootThe same digit returns in חמש עשרה (15) and חמישים (50).
sixsixשש
⚠️ GenderMasculine שישה.
sevensevenשבע
⚠️ GenderMasculine שבעה. 🔗 Rootשבוע (a week) is seven days — the same root.
eighteightשמונה
⚠️ GenderMasculine and feminine are spelled alike; only the stress differs — shmoné (f.) / shmona (m.).
ninenineתשע
⚠️ GenderMasculine תשעה.
tentenעשר
⚠️ GenderMasculine עשרה. 🔗 RootHiding inside the teens (חמש עשרה) and inside עשרים (twenty).
elevenelevenאחת עשרה
Literally 'one-ten'. ⚠️ GenderMasculine אחד עשר.
twelvetwelveשתים עשרה
⚠️ IrregularIn this compound the spelling loses a yod: שתים, not שתיים. ⚠️ GenderMasculine שנים עשר.
fifteenfifteenחמש עשרה
Teens are unit + עשרה. ⚠️ GenderMasculine חמישה עשר.
twentytwentyעשרים
🔗 RootFrom עשר (ten). Round tens have one form for both genders — only the units below twenty agree.
twenty-onetwenty-oneעשרים ואחת
Literally 'twenty and-one' — the unit attaches with ו־. ⚠️ GenderWith a masculine noun: עשרים ואחד.
thirtythirtyשלושים
🔗 RootTens are the digit plus ־ים: שלוששלושים.
fortyfortyארבעים
🔗 Rootארבע plus the ־ים ending. One form for both genders.
fiftyfiftyחמישים
🔗 RootFrom חמש, spelled with a yod — echoing חמישה.
hundredhundredמאה
100. The dual מאתיים is 200, and the plural מאות is hundreds.
thousandthousandאלף
1,000. The dual אלפיים is 2,000.
millionmillionמיליון
⚠️ IrregularA loanword, and it stays singular after a number: שני מיליון = two million.