Language Tools
Look up words in English, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish — hear them pronounced, get definitions and phonetics, translate between languages, and enrich the meaning of Talmudic passages.
Quick Talmudic glossary — tap any term:
Sources:
English definitions — Free Dictionary API (open source, CC BY-SA 3.0) ·
Hebrew / Aramaic lexicon — Sefaria Lexicon API (CC BY-NC 4.0) ·
Talmudic glossary — compiled from classical rabbinic sources, public domain.
Notes on language support:
Yiddish: Supported via the MyMemory translation engine (ISO 639-1 code: yi). Yiddish is written right-to-left in Hebrew script and shares many roots with Hebrew, Aramaic, and German.
Aramaic: Classical Biblical Aramaic and Babylonian Talmudic Aramaic are not well-supported by modern machine translation engines. For Aramaic, this tool provides transliteration assistance and routes Hebrew through the Sefaria lexicon where possible. Full Aramaic ↔ English translation requires specialized rabbinic scholarship — we're building deeper support as a future feature.
📢 Reminder: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish have no CH (as in "cheese"), J (as in "jello"), or W (as in "water") sounds.
Yiddish: Supported via the MyMemory translation engine (ISO 639-1 code: yi). Yiddish is written right-to-left in Hebrew script and shares many roots with Hebrew, Aramaic, and German.
Aramaic: Classical Biblical Aramaic and Babylonian Talmudic Aramaic are not well-supported by modern machine translation engines. For Aramaic, this tool provides transliteration assistance and routes Hebrew through the Sefaria lexicon where possible. Full Aramaic ↔ English translation requires specialized rabbinic scholarship — we're building deeper support as a future feature.
📢 Reminder: Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish have no CH (as in "cheese"), J (as in "jello"), or W (as in "water") sounds.
Sources:
Translation engine — MyMemory API (free tier, no key required) ·
Hebrew lexicon assist — Sefaria.org ·
Pronunciation — Web Speech API (built into your browser, no server call).
Paste any Talmudic passage or term. Talmudy will identify key concepts, explain what's happening, surface related texts, and translate key vocabulary — making the meaning richer and more accessible.
How this works:
Talmudy identifies named concepts (people, tractates, topics, legal terms) from its own knowledge base and the Sefaria API,
then surfaces dictionary definitions, related passages, and contextual notes. Full AI-powered meaning transfer between
ancient and modern language is on our roadmap — this is the human-curated layer that comes first.
Sources:
Concept recognition — Talmudy internal knowledge base ·
Cross-references — Sefaria.org API (CC BY-NC 4.0) ·
Definitions — Free Dictionary API.