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Preface Introduction Chapters Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Appendices Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Appendix IV Appendix V Appendix VI Appendix VII Appendix VIII Appendix IX Appendix X Appendix XI Appendix XII Appendix XIII Appendix XIV Appendix XV Appendix XVI Appendix XVII Appendix XVIII Appendix XIX Appendix XX Appendix XXI Indexes References Names Biblical References General Bibliography |
APPENDIX XVIII(Reference: p.92) Some Instances where Hayah
is Translated “became” in spite of the Absence of
Lamedh Following. Gen. 3.20: "Because she be came the mother of
every living per- son" (Berkeley). Gen. 9.15: "The water shall no more become a
flood to destroy the earth" (AV). Gen. 12.10: "And there became a famine in the
Land" (LXX). Gen. 15.5: "So shall thy seed become"
(AV). Gen. 27.23: "His hands had become hairy like the
hands of his brother Esau" (BDB). Gen. 34.15: "If ye will become as we are"
(LXX). Gen. 38. 7: "Judah's firstborn became wicked in
the sight of the Lord" (BDB: LXX). Gen. 47.20: "And the land became Pharaoh's"
(LXX). Gen. 48.19: ".... and his seed shall become a
multitude of nat- ions" (AV). Gen. 49.17: "Dan shall become a serpent in the
way" (LXX). Gen. 50.9: "And it became a very great company
(LXX). Exod.7.19: "that they may become...." (A
V: RSV). Exod.23.29: "Lest the
earth become desolate... ."(AV). Exod.36.13: "and so
it became one tabernacle" (AV). Jud.11.39: "And it became a custom in
Israel" (AV). II Sam.8.14: ""And
all they of Edom became David's servants" (AV). II Ki.17.3: "Shalmanezer (came up).... and
Hoshea became his servant". Ezek.35.4: "Thou shalt become a
desolation" (RSV). Micah 2.11: "He shall become a prophet of this
people" (BDB). The following further
references will also be found in the Versions noted. Revised Version.Gen. 2.10 Exod. 8.17 (2x) 3.22 9.10 19.26 23.29 21.20 36.13 37.20 Jud. 15.14 pg
1 of 3 I Sam. 16.21 Exod. 9.10 18.29 Lev. 13.24 28.16 Deut. 33.5 I Ki. 11.24 Josh. 9.21 13.6, 33 Jud. 11.39 II Ki. 24.1 15.14 I Chron. 18.2 I Sam. 14.15 18.6 16.21 18.13 I Ki. 1.4 Psa. 69.8 13.16 79.4 II
Ki. 17.3 83.10 I Chron.
18.2 109.25 18.6 Isa. 7.24 18.13 Jer. 26.18 II Chron. 13.9 Lam. 1.11 Psa.
83.10 Ezek. 17.6 (2x) Isa.
18.5 19.3,6 Ezek. 19.3,6,11 23.10 23.10 Micah 3.12 36.3 Dan. 2.35 Hosea
9.10 Revised Standard Version. Gen. 39.2 (2x) Berkeley Version. Gen. 3.20: "(Eve) became the mother of
all living". 4.2: "Abel became a herder of flocks". 4.21: "Jabal became father of all
tent dwellers". 16.12: "Jubal became the father of
all (musicians)". 17.5: "Your name shall become
Abraham". 21.19: ".... became an expert
bowman". 25.27: "Esau became an expert
hunter". 28.22: "(This) pillar shall become a
house of God". 37.20: "What becomes of his
dreams". All the above are cases
where the translation of
is not merely admissible
but virtually mandatory in order to give the true sense of the
original: and not one of them is followed by the proposition
There are times almost
without number in the Old Testament where "became"
would have been better but was for some reason
not adopted by translators in
the English versions. In Genesis alone there are hundreds
of examples. Thus in Gen.4.20 we should have the words "And
he became the father of such as dwell in tents" and in verse 21, "And
he became the father of such as handle the harp and the organ". The LXX has correctly translated both
passages English versions simply
say, "He was the father, etc.", which clearly is not nearly as
meaningful, historically speaking. In
Gen 5 a recurrent phrase reads
"And all the days of so-and-so came to be (ie. , became)
such-and-such". The Hebrew has
the verb the original, and the LXX
correctly renders this "
no hesitation in
equating Thus if one were to allow
all versions to speak with equal voice it would never again be
stated categorically that the translation of
as "became" is
so rare as to be "inadmissible" - as Leupold, for example, holds in his Exposition
of Genesis at Gen. 1.2 (Wartburg Press, Columbus, Ohio,
1942, p.46). * * * Copyright © 1988 Evelyn White. All rights reserved
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as
"became"
.
in
",
and so forth. The Hebrew scholars in Alexandria had
. 