I don't buy it. I've never heard of it before and it seems to hang on the word "became" that didaskalos quotes below.
I just read the ASV, CEV, DRB, ESV, GNB, GW, KJV, KJVR, LITV and MKJV versions and it doesn't say it "became" in any of those versions.
The Hebrew word it comes from is...