אם כואב לך הראש, רופא המשפחה שלך יכול לעזור לך.

This is a very common Hebrew pattern for talking about pain.

כואב לך הראש literally breaks down like this:

• כואב = hurts / is painful
• לך = to you
• הראש = the head

So the structure is closer to the head hurts to you.

In natural English, we say your head hurts. In natural Hebrew, it is very common to say כואב לי / לך / לו... with the body part added after that.

Examples:

• כואבת לי הבטן = My stomach hurts
• כואבות לי הרגליים = My legs hurt

You can also say הראש שלך כואב, but כואב לך הראש is a very normal and idiomatic way to express it.

Here, אם means if.

So:

• אם כואב לך הראש = If your head hurts

In other contexts, אם can also mean whether:

• אני לא יודע אם הוא יבוא = I don’t know whether he will come

But in your sentence, it is clearly the conditional if.

Because it plays two different roles:

1. כואב לך הראש = your head hurts
   Here לך means to you in the Hebrew pain expression.

2. לעזור לך = to help you
   Here לך is the object of help.

So the full sentence has:

• If your head hurts
• your family doctor can help you

Even though English uses you / your, Hebrew often uses ל־ forms like לי, לך, לו, לה.

With body parts, Hebrew often uses the definite article ה־ when the owner is already understood from context.

So כואב לך הראש literally looks like the head hurts to you, but the meaning is simply your head hurts.

This is very natural in Hebrew. The ownership is already clear because of לך.

Compare:

• כואבת לי היד = My hand hurts
• שורפות לי העיניים = My eyes are burning / stinging

So הראש is not strange here—it is exactly what Hebrew normally does.

This means your family doctor.

It is built like this:

• רופא = doctor
• המשפחה = the family
• שלך = your

The first two words form a construct phrase:

• רופא משפחה = family doctor
• רופא המשפחה = the family doctor

Then שלך adds your:

• רופא המשפחה שלך = your family doctor

So Hebrew is literally arranging it more like: doctor of-the-family your

This is a very common noun pattern in Hebrew.

Because יכול agrees with רופא, which is masculine singular.

• רופא = male doctor / doctor in masculine form
• יכול = can, masculine singular

If you were talking about a female doctor, you would say:

• רופאת המשפחה שלך יכולה לעזור לך
• Your family doctor (female) can help you

So יכול/יכולה must match the gender and number of the subject.

יכול means can / is able to.
לעזור means to help.

Together:

• יכול לעזור = can help

This is a very common structure in Hebrew:

• יכול לדבר = can speak
• יכול לבוא = can come
• יכול לעזור = can help

If the subject were feminine:

• יכולה לעזור = can help

Because לעזור is the infinitive to help.

In Hebrew, infinitives often begin with ל־, which usually corresponds to English to:

• לעזור = to help
• לדבר = to speak
• ללכת = to go / to walk
• לכתוב = to write

So in this sentence:

• יכול לעזור = can help / is able to help

Hebrew often does not use a separate possessive word with body parts when the owner is already shown by לי / לך / לו / לה.

So instead of saying:

• your head hurts

Hebrew commonly says:

• כואב לך הראש
• literally: the head hurts to you

This is just a normal Hebrew way to express possession in certain situations, especially with body parts, feelings, and physical states.

Yes, you could, and it would mean something like If you have a headache.

Compare the two:

• אם כואב לך הראש = If your head hurts
• אם יש לך כאב ראש = If you have a headache

Both are natural, but they are slightly different in feel:

• כואב לך הראש focuses on the pain itself
• יש לך כאב ראש uses the noun כאב ראש = headache

In everyday speech, both are possible.

It behaves a bit differently from a typical English verb.

כואב comes from the root כ־א־ב relating to pain. In many sentences like this, it functions a lot like hurts / is painful.

For learners, it is often easiest to understand:

• כואב לי = it hurts me / it hurts
• כואב לך הראש = your head hurts

You do not need to force it into exactly the same grammar pattern as English. The important thing is to recognize the Hebrew pattern:

• כואב ל...
• כואבת ל...
• כואבים ל...
• כואבות ל...

These forms change according to the thing that hurts.

Because הראש is masculine singular.

In Hebrew, the word that means hurts agrees with the thing that hurts:

• הראש = head, masculine singular → כואב
• הבטן = stomach, feminine singular → כואבת
• הידיים = hands, feminine plural → כואבות
• השרירים = muscles, masculine plural → כואבים

So:

• כואב לך הראש = your head hurts

because ראש is masculine.

Yes, sometimes.

For example, you could also say:

• רופא המשפחה שלך יכול לעזור לך אם כואב לך הראש

This means the same thing:
Your family doctor can help you if your head hurts.

The version with the אם clause first is also very natural:

• אם כואב לך הראש, רופא המשפחה שלך יכול לעזור לך.

Putting the if clause first often makes the condition feel more prominent.

A simple transliteration is:

Im ko'ev lekha ha-rosh, rofe ha-mishpakha shelkha yakhol la'azor lekha.

A few notes:

• אם = im
• כואב = ko'ev
• לך is often lekha for a male you
• רופא = rofe
• המשפחה = ha-mishpakha
• שלך = shelkha
• יכול = yakhol
• לעזור = la'azor

In everyday modern Israeli pronunciation, some small variations can happen, but this is a good learner-friendly version.

Form-wise, yes: both are לך = to you.

But function-wise, they are part of different expressions:

• כואב לך הראש = the head hurts to you
• לעזור לך = to help you

So the same Hebrew form appears twice, but each time it belongs to a different grammatical structure.

Because of שלך, the sentence as written is addressed to a male listener.

• שלך can represent both masculine and feminine in writing without vowels, but in fully pronounced form:
  • to a man: shelkha
  • to a woman: shelakh

Also, לך can be pronounced:

• lekha when speaking to a man
• lakh when speaking to a woman

So in unpointed Hebrew writing, the sentence can often look the same, but the pronunciation changes depending on who is being addressed.

If you want a clearly female-addressed pronunciation, it would be:

• אם כואב לך הראש, רופא המשפחה שלך יכול לעזור לך
• pronounced with lakh / shelakh instead of lekha / shelkha

The spelling usually stays the same.