Re: Judge

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "t0lgsoo1" <guestuser.0x9357@...> wrote:
>
> >footnote:
> >** = hebr. šōfĕţîm "die Richter", gr. κριταί
>
> <Stirnklatsch> Oh yeah, Biblic _shofet_ (shopet) might be the
> missing link!

The problem is I don't know how early this occurs in Hebrew
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/67203
I haven't found any online Hebrew etymological dictionaries which would clear that up.

Torsten

Evidently pretty damn early. It's the term used for Samuel, Deborah and the Judges, AFAIK. It's also old enough to be shared with Phoenician and Carthaginian in the word suffete, which clearly seems to be the Latin derived form of the same word.