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--- hiteh [2024/04/06 18:25] – created ken
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 =====hiteh=====
 היתה
+'hiteh' means "was" or "had become".
 The word 'hiteh' first appears in Genesis 1:2.
-"and the earth **was** formless and void" is the common translation. In this rendering, 'hiteh' is interpreted as a past tense form of the verb "to be", and is assigned the Strong number 1961.
+"//and the earth **was** formless and void//" is the common translation. In this rendering, 'hiteh' is interpreted as a past tense form of the verb "to be".
-This is very strange indeed.
+Normally however,, the word [[ahih]] is used for the verb "to be/exist/is/was", as is the case for most of the uses in this section of text. Genesis chapter 1 uses 'ahih' multiple times, but only in this one particular instance chooses to use 'hiteh' instead.
-Strong number 1961 does refer to a verb meaning "to be". It is the word [[ahih]].
+'hiteh' is clearly not the same word as 'ahih', and the two words should not be equated.
-'hiteh' is clearly not the same word as 'ahih'
+It is important to note the difference between "was" and "had become". hiteh may indicated an active state caused by a previous event, rather than simply a passive state. In other words, 'hiteh' might indicate "had become" rather than "was".
+The implication of the traditional rendering is that earth was in some primal state of pre-[[creation]]. This is not actually supported by the text. In fact, if our supposition is correct quite the opposite is true. The usage of the word 'hiteh' indicates that the earth **had become** barren. The exact phrase is "//Earth had become worthless junk//" ([[teho]] [[beho]]). The text appears to indicate that some earlier event had destroyed whatever had previously been on Earth, and the planet was now desolate.
 'hiteh' occurs 111 times.(([[https://biblehub.com/hebrew/hayetah_1961.htm]]))
+FIXME - Audit these instances
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 LexID 101961