900–801 BC
Biblical Hebrew words first recorded in the 9th century BC
2 Biblical Hebrew words whose earliest known written record dates from the 9th century BC, earliest first. Words dated only to part of the century follow the ones with a year.
בית
899 BC–800 BCIt is inherited from Proto-Semitic *bayt- (“house”), one of the Proto-Semitic nouns whose form and meaning can be reconstructed precisely. It is kept in Akkadian bītu (“house”), Ugaritic bt (plural…
יין
899 BC–800 BCIt is inherited from Proto-West Semitic *wayn- (“grapes, vine, wine”), a West Semitic word kept in Ugaritic yn (“wine”), Phoenician yn (“wine”), Arabic وَيْن (wayn, “black grapes”), Sabaean wyn…