How it works
Enable the extension on a site you read. It highlights useful words in the article, not a separate lesson window. Hover a highlight to see the meaning. Chrome itself stays in English.
The loop is short on purpose:
- Words that are worth noticing get a highlight.
- Hover (or tap the highlight) for the Hebrew.
- Keep reading. The page does not become a worksheet.
Coverage is a slider, not a promise that every word will change.
Roots, prefixes, and a page with no vowels
Hebrew is built from (usually) three-letter roots. Once you can see כ-ת-ב inside מכתב, כתוב, and לכתוב, the vocabulary stops feeling like a pile of unrelated shapes. A hover on an English word you already understand is a calm way to meet those family members.
The definite article is a prefix (ה), not a separate word. Prepositions glue on the same way. English pages will not teach you that; the Hebrew gloss will show the form you would actually write. Right-to-left script in the tooltip is expected — the surrounding article stays left-to-right English.
Pointed Hebrew (niqqud) is what textbooks use. Almost no news site prints it. This pair is English → Hebrew: you read English, you meet Hebrew. It is not a reverse picker for unpointed Hebrew articles, and it does not claim to vocalize a Haaretz column.
English → Hebrew is live
Hebrew is in the public language picker as English → Hebrew. The other eleven targets are bidirectional with English (EN↔): Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Arabic.
What this is not
It is not a course, a streak, or a classroom. It does not teach square-script handwriting, and it does not add a Hebrew → English mode. It is a reading overlay for people who already spend time in the browser.
Questions
Is Hebrew bidirectional like Spanish?
No. Hebrew is English → Hebrew in the picker. The other public pairs (Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic) run both ways with English.
Most Hebrew sites have no niqqud. Does that matter?
The hover shows the Hebrew for an English word on the page you are reading. It does not promise to restore vowels on an unpointed Hebrew article, and it does not add a reverse Hebrew → English picker.
Does the tooltip include transliteration?
Hebrew glosses can include transliteration next to the script, the same idea as other languages that need help sounding out a new alphabet. The page itself stays English.
Price
There is a free week, then $5 a month. Cancel anytime. No user counts or review scores on this page — those belong on the Chrome Web Store listing if they exist.