Pealim Review: Hebrew Conjugation Tables in 2026

Pealim (פעלים, Hebrew for "verbs") is a website of Hebrew conjugation tables at pealim.com. It says it covers the conjugation and meaning of more than 9,000 Hebrew words, and it works by implementing Hebrew conjugation rules in code on top of a dictionary of the most common, and the trickiest, verbs, with nouns, adjectives, numerals, and prepositions alongside. The interface is available in English, Russian, Spanish, and Hebrew. The website is free with advertising. A paid, ad-free mobile app for iPhone and Android works offline; on the US App Store it costs $14.99 and lists more than 9,100 words. Pealim describes itself as a reference to use during your studies, not a textbook. This review answers a narrow question: what Pealim does better than a translator, and where a learner needs a different kind of tool.

Pealim is a conjugation dictionary. Look up a verb and you get every form: present tense in its four gender and number forms, past and future for every person, the imperative, and the infinitive, each written with vowel points and in ordinary unvowelled spelling, with a Latin transcription that marks the stressed syllable. It covers nouns and adjectives the same way. It does not translate sentences, and it does not try to.

Pealim shows every gender form side by side, which is exactly what a learner needs to understand how Hebrew marks gender, and it adds notes on modern usage, for example that the feminine plural future is usually replaced by the masculine form in everyday speech. What it cannot do is choose the form for your sentence: it does not know who is speaking or who is listening, because it works one word at a time. Picking the right cell is left to you.

This is one of Pealim's best features. Type an inflected word, for example כתבתי, and Pealim tells you it is the past tense, first person singular of לכתוב, with the root כ-ת-ב and the binyan. When an unvowelled spelling could be more than one form, as שוברת can, it lists each reading with its tense, person, and gender. You can also search by English meaning. For a learner who meets an unfamiliar form in a text and wants to know exactly what it is, that reverse lookup is faster than any translator.

Pealim lets you choose how Hebrew is displayed: with vowel points, without them, or both, and with or without the extra letters unvowelled spelling uses. The transcription follows modern Israeli pronunciation and can be switched to Ashkenazi pronunciation, and each form now has a speaker button that plays it aloud. Those display options make it unusually good for reading practice as well as grammar.

The website is free and carries advertising. The paid mobile app removes the ads and works with no internet connection. Pealim says it focuses on essential modern Hebrew grammar and does not yet include forms with pronominal suffixes, inflected infinitives, or rare and archaic forms. It also has no sentence translation, no slang or idiom handling at the sentence level, and no way to set a speaker or listener.

Pealim is a thorough Hebrew grammar reference, and for checking how a word conjugates, or what form an unfamiliar word is, it does a job a translator does not. A translator and a conjugation table answer different questions. Pealim shows you all the forms; writing a message to a specific person still means choosing the one form that matches who is speaking and who is listening, which is the step a Hebrew-first translator does for you.

In the published protocol run (v1.0, 2026-08-02), baba passed 5 of 5 objective items. Pealim was not part of the published protocol run, so it is listed as untested rather than scored. An unrun tool is not a failing tool.

The full evaluation set, pass criteria, verbatim outputs, and the dimensions the protocol deliberately does not measure are published on the methodology page.