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Hebrew
Etymology
From the root ח־נ־ך (ḥ-n-k).
Verb
חינך / חִנֵּךְ • (khinékh) (pi'el construction, passive counterpart חונך / חֻנַּךְ)
- To educate.
- 2010, Ehud Barak, quoted in Yair Ettinger (יאיר אטינגר), “הרב יהודה עמיטל, ראש ישיבת הר עציון לשעבר, מת בגיל 86” (haráv y'hudá amitál, rosh y'shivát har etsión l'sha'avár, met b'gíl 86, “Rabbi Yehuda Amital, former head of Yeshivat Har Etzion, died at age 86”), in Haaretz (הארץ) online, 2010 July 9:
הרב עמיטל היה פורץ דרך, שחינך את אלפי תלמידיו לאהבת ישראל, שירות בצה"ל וחינוך ערכי וציוני.- haráv amitál hayá poréts-dérekh, shekhinékh et alféi talmidáv l'ahavát yisra'él, sheirút b'tsáhal, v'khinúkh erkí v'tsiyoní.
Rabbi Amital was a pathbreaker who educated his thousands of students to a love of Israel, service in the IDF, and valuable and Zionist education.
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