Hayah, the Hebrew To Be Verb for is, am and was, means Become. There is Transition Involved!

I noticed it years ago in the margin of my old Bible: the note for Exodus 3: 14, where it says that God said, "I AM THAT I AM," said "Lit. become."

And the Hebrew word hayah does literally mean become. There is transition involved. Something wasn't something else, then it BECAME something else. There was transition. "The earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep" (Genesis 1: 2). The earth wasn't created that way, but BECAME that way. "Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro" (Exodus 3: 1). Moses didn't keep (hayah) the flocks of Jethro, then he did. He transitioned to keeping a flock he had not kept before.

Of course, the earth was still the same earth, and Moses was the same Moses, but what they were doing--their states--became different.

Where the Hebrew word hayah occurs, look for the transition. This "transition" is the name (i.e., the nature) of God! When we are transitioning, it is God's experience. Inside there, in the experience inside, God has form.