Balashon

I stumbled across a blog yesterday called "Balashon". In this blog, the author analyzes words in the Hebrew language, traces their etymologies, notes influences of other languages into Hebrew and tries to get precise definitions of words which may appear to be ambiguous.

I've studied Hebrew since I was young and I have a great love for the language, especially Biblical Hebrew. Balashon, who calls himself a "Hebrew Language Detective", is of a similar spirit.

I especially like his "Kri and Ktiv" game in which he provides you with the definition of two words. The object of the contest is to find two words that are spelled the same in Hebrew, but with different vowels, and mean the two things given in the game.