Hebrew is one of the many languages whose text corpora are included in Sketch Engine, a tool for discovering how language works. Sketch Engine is designed for linguists, lexicologists, lexicographers, researchers, translators, terminologists, teachers and students working with Hebrew to easily discover what is typical and frequent in the language and to notice phenomena which would go unnoticed without a large sample of Hebrew text.

Sketch Engine has tools to identify and analyse collocations, synonyms and antonyms, examples of use in context, keywords or terms. Frequency word lists of Hebrew single-word or multi-word expressions of various types can be generated. Even users without any technical knowledge can create their own Hebrew corpus using the Sketch Engine's intuitive built-in tool.

Tools to work with Hebrew text corpora

To work with the Hebrew language, Sketch Engine offers the following tools:

Hebrew concordance

The concordancer included in Sketch Engine can be used to display a list of examples (called concordance) of the search word or phrase as it appears in Hebrew language text corpora. The search will display the keyword with some context to the right and context to the left of the keyword (KWIC concordance). more»

Hebrew word lists

The word list feature will generate a frequency list of all words that appear in a text or corpus. A very large corpus can be used to generate a list of all words that exist in Hebrew or all words that start, contain or end with specific characters. Advanced options can be used to generate lists of grammatical categories or parts of speech used in a corpus together with their frequencies. more»

N-grams in Hebrew

Generating a list of N-grams contained in a text makes it possible to identify and study patterns and notice phenomena related to multi-word units (MWU) in Hebrew that cannot be detected by other tools. more»

List of available Hebrew corpora

  • main – only available to paying subscribers
Corpus Access policy Size in words
CHILDES Hebrew Corpus main 807,657
Hebrew General Corpus (web crawled, mostly newspapers) main 157,947,728
Hebrew Web (HebWaC) main 47,832,254
Hebrew Web 2014 (heTenTen14, Meni/Alon tagged + lempos) access on demand 895,876,116
Hebrew Web 2014 (heTenTen14, no POS tagging) trial 890,282,843
OPUS2 Hebrew main 130,972,343
Timestamped JSI web corpus 2014-2016 Hebrew trial 111,339,363
Timestamped JSI web corpus 2014-2019 Hebrew main 293,090,716
Timestamped JSI web corpus 2019-07 Hebrew main 7,193,611
Timestamped JSI web corpus 2019-08 Hebrew main 2,368,822