Some Instances where Hayah is Translated "became" in spite of the Absence of Lamedh Following
APPENDICK XVIII (Reference: p. 92)
Gen. 3. 20: "Because she became the mother of every living person" (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 nations" (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,, " (AV: 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 (cameup) ,. and Hoshea became hi 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
3.22
19.26
21.20
37.20
I Sam. 16.21
18.29
28.16
I Ki. 11.24
13.6, 33
II Ki. 24.1
I Chron. 18. 2
18.6
18.13
Psa. 69.8
79.4
83.10
109.25
Isa. 7.24
Jer. 26.18
Lam. 11.11
Ezek. 17. 6 (2x)
19.3,6
23.10
Micah 3.12
Revised Standard Version.
Gen. 39. 2 (2x) |
Exod. 8. 17 (2x)
9.10
23.29
36.13
Jud. 15. 14
Exod. 9.10
Lev. 13.24
Deut. 33.5
Josh. 9.21
jud. 11.39
15.14
1 Sam. 14.15
16.21
1 Ki. 1.4
11 Ki. 17.3
1 Chron. 18.2
18.6
18.13
11 Chron. 13. 9
Psa. 83.10
Isa. 18.5
Ezek. 19.3,6,11
23.10
36.3
Dan. 2.35
Hosea 9.10
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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".
4.21: "Jubal became the father of all (musicians)".
17.5: "Your name shall become Abraham".
21.20: "...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  as "became" 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".
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  in the original, and the LXX correctly render   ", and so forth. The Hebrew scholars in Alexandria had no hesitation in equating  with  .
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).
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