Biblical Hebrew Forum

["JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.apu.ac.uk>]

Yitzhak wrote:
The word Tiamat is a perfect cognate of the Hebrew word Tehom.  The word
Tehom appears without the he before it (compare the word ha)arec at the end
of the verse), which suggests that it may be a proper name.
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JCR: So, Genesis would read that darkness was on the face
of Tiamat rather than on the face of the deep?

James C. Read
UK