What language did king Solomon speak?

Answer 1

• Hebrew. All Israelites spoke Hebrew until after the captivity.

Answer 2

• King David spoke Syriac, Egyptian and some other Caananite language too. Hebrew spawned out of Babylon after Jews were expelled from Judea after King Solomon's time. Therefore King Solomon spoke the same languages of his father and must have learned more languages because he had many wives of many nations.

Answer 3

• King Solomon was reputed to have been fluent in seventy different languages.

  His written works were rendered in Hebrew.

Hebrew.

Answer 2

A:

A person like Solomon, living in Jerusalem towards the end of the tenth century BCE, would have spoken an early form of Hebrew, at that stage still essentially a dialect of Canaanite. He could also have spoken Moabite, a closely related Semitic language and perhaps the language of the Philistines. Because of the dominant presence of Egypt in the region, he could be expected to have known the Egyptian language.

Answer 3

King Solomon was reputed to have been fluent in seventy different languages.

His written works were rendered in Hebrew.

Answer 4

Biblical Hebrew.

Answer 5

Hebrew.