לפעמים למילה אחת יש שני פירושים שונים, ולכן חשוב להבין את המשמעות לפי המשפט.

לפעמים means sometimes. Hebrew often places time words like this at the beginning of the sentence, just as English can do:

• Sometimes, one word has two different meanings.

So לפעמים sets the time frame for the whole statement.

The phrase למילה אחת יש literally means to one word there is or more naturally one word has.

Hebrew often expresses have/has with יש plus ל־:

• יש לי ספר = I have a book
  literally: There is a book to me
• למילה אחת יש שני פירושים = One word has two meanings
  literally: To one word there are two meanings

So the ל־ on למילה is not optional here. It is part of the normal Hebrew way to express possession.

In Hebrew, the number one usually comes after the noun and agrees with it in gender:

• מילה אחת = one word
• ספר אחד = one book

Since מילה is feminine, the form is אחת.
So:

• masculine: אחד
• feminine: אחת

This is different from English, where one comes before the noun.

Because פירושים is a masculine plural noun.

Hebrew numbers 2 and up must agree with the noun’s gender, though the forms can feel tricky at first:

• masculine noun: שני פירושים = two meanings/explanations
• feminine noun: שתי מילים = two words

So שני is the correct form before a masculine plural noun like פירושים.

פירושים is the plural of פירוש, which can mean:

• interpretation
• explanation
• meaning

In this sentence, it means something like meanings or interpretations.

It is close to משמעויות (meanings), but not always identical in every context:

• פירוש can feel like interpretation/explanation
• משמעות is more directly meaning/significance

Here, שני פירושים שונים means that the word can be understood in two different ways.

Because they do two different jobs:

• שני = tells you the number: two
• שונים = describes them as different

So:

• שני פירושים שונים = two different meanings

Also notice that שונים agrees with פירושים in number and gender:

• פירושים is masculine plural
• so the adjective is שונים

ולכן means and therefore or simply therefore/so.

It is made of:

• ו־ = and
• לכן = therefore

So the sentence moves like this:

• Sometimes one word has two different meanings,
• therefore / so
• it is important to understand the meaning from the sentence context.

Attaching little words like ו־ directly to the next word is very common in Hebrew.

Hebrew often says simply:

• חשוב להבין = it is important to understand

The subject it is usually not stated the way it is in English. Hebrew often omits this kind of dummy subject.

So English needs:

• It is important to understand...

But Hebrew naturally says:

• חשוב להבין...

This is a very common structure.

Yes, literally לפי המשפט means according to the sentence.

In smoother English here, it means:

• from the sentence
• based on the sentence
• according to the context of the sentence

So the idea is that you figure out the meaning by looking at the sentence the word appears in.

Good question. Earlier, the sentence says a word may have two different meanings. Then it says it is important to understand המשמעות = the meaning.

Here the singular means:

• the correct meaning in that specific sentence

So the logic is:

• a word may have several possible meanings,
• but in one actual sentence,
• you need to understand the intended meaning.

That is why the singular makes sense.

Yes, it is very typical. The sentence breaks down like this:

• לפעמים = sometimes
• למילה אחת יש שני פירושים שונים = one word has two different meanings
• ולכן = therefore / so
• חשוב להבין את המשמעות לפי המשפט = it is important to understand the meaning according to the sentence/context

A very literal version would be:

• Sometimes, to one word there are two different interpretations, and therefore important to understand the meaning according to the sentence.

A natural English version would be:

• Sometimes one word has two different meanings, so it is important to understand the meaning from the sentence context.

So yes, the Hebrew structure is normal, even if parts of it are built differently from English.