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There is no way to know. We have no knowledge of the number of words in Hebrew in ancient times, given that The Bible is our only source of information about the language, and it only contains about 8000 different words.

In 1400 BCE, Hebrew was quite different than it was in the Torah. At that point in time, Hebrew, Canaanite, and Ugaritic were all the same language. Linguists refer to this era of Hebrew as Proto-Hebrew, and may not have been mutually intelligible with Biblical Hebrew.

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