promised 3,000 years ago
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.46 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
Mocking the claim that Israel was promised to the Jews by God 3,000 years ago; used to imply that Israelis, or Jews, feel entitled to commit theft or other criminal and immoral acts.
Derogatory; Offensive
phrase
Used to connect something to Jewish people, often as an ironic reappropriation of sense 1 by Jews themselves.
Humorous
Example Sentences
- ""The only people who have the right to self-determination in Minnesota are Somalis," a Somali American said in a viral TikTok video. "Somalis have a cultural tie to the land. It was promised to us 3,000 years ago. We have the right to go back to our homeland.""
- "Among the circulating comments, one user wrote, “I admire what kind of patience it took for Moses guiding these people,” while another remarked, “Was cleanliness not promised 3,000 years ago too???”"
- "One widely shared video posted on Instagram by Mohamed Hadid to his 1.5 million followers shows Jews claiming lawn chairs, sandwiches, watches and a baby, and concludes with a Hasidic Jew stating, “I was promised six million followers on TikTok 3,000 years ago,” an oblique reference to the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust."
- "A video of Jewish content creators joking about bringing free shampoo home from a hotel? Well, they must think those toiletries were promised to them 3,000 years ago. A video of a Jew making, well, any kind of food? They’re appropriating another culture’s recipes because they were promised to them 3,000 years ago. A thread about Gal Gadot’s wooden line delivery as Wonder Woman? Well, it was promised to her 3,000 years ago."
- "A new wave of AI generated memes and videos depict stereotypical religious Jews stealing phones, dogs, babies, and even the moon with the justification that “it was promised to us 3,000 years ago.”"
- "Glad to see Israel has the capital it was promised 3000 years ago."
Etymology
Alluding to the Promised Land in the Hebrew Bible, later popularized as an Internet meme in 2025. The reference of the number 3,000 is unclear. According to traditional chronology, the covenant between God and Abraham took place in 1743 BCE (3,768 years ago); it presumably refers to the establishment of the United Kingdom of Israel traditionally dated to 1047 BCE.