700–601 BC
Biblical Hebrew words first recorded in the 7th century BC
3 Biblical Hebrew words whose earliest known written record dates from the 7th century BC, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.
אלף
700 BC1. The numeral is inherited from Proto-Semitic *ʔalp- (“cattle; thousand”). It is found in Ugaritic ảlp (“thousand”), Phoenician ʾlp, Aramaic אֲלַף (ʾălap̄), Classical Syriac ܐܳܠܶܦ (ʾālep̄), Arabic…
היה
700 BCIt is inherited from Proto-Semitic *haway- (“to fall, happen, be, become”). The same verb is Aramaic הֲוָא (hăwā) and Classical Syriac ܗܘܳܐ (hwā), with ⟨w⟩ as the middle consonant, and Hebrew has…
הלך
700 BCIt is inherited from Proto-Semitic *halak- (“to go”). The verb is shared by the Northwest Semitic languages: Ugaritic hlk, with the imperfect ylk, Phoenician hlk, Moabite, Aramaic הלך (hlk), whose…