Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jason A. Hare" <language_lover64801 AT yahoo.com>]

Just a small addition.  When this argument was raised before (in casual
discussion with some friends), I brought this up:

If Genesis 1.2 had been intended to mean "became," the author would (most
likely) have written - V'ha'aretz hayetah l'tohu vavohu.

In other words, if the author was meaning to specify that the earth
"became" Tohu and Bohu, he would have used the L- preposition.  As it is
written, however, it means simply "was."

Is there no merit to this?

Regards,
Jason