הָיָה

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

1. Job 1:1 הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

   There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.

2. Job 1:1 וְהָיָ֣ה׀ ve.ha.Yah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

   There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and turned away from evil.

3. Job 1:3 וַיְהִ֣י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

4. Job 1:3 וַיְהִי֙ vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

5. Job 1:5 וַיְהִ֡י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

6. Job 1:6 וַיְהִ֣י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them.

7. Job 1:13 וַיְהִ֖י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And it fell on a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house,

8. Job 1:14 הָי֣וּ ha.Yu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

   that there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them;

9. Job 1:21 יְהִ֛י ye.Hi · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.

10. Job 2:1 וַיְהִ֣י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    Again it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Jehovah.

11. Job 3:4 יְֽהִ֫י ye.Hi · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

12. Job 3:7 יְהִ֣י ye.Hi · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein.

13. Job 3:16 אֶהְיֶ֑ה 'eh.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

14. Job 5:16 וַתְּהִ֣י va.te.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

15. Job 6:10 וּ֥תְהִי U.te.hi · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

16. Job 6:21 הֱיִ֣יתֶם he.Yi.tem · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by all of you

    For now ye are nothing; Ye see a terror, and are afraid.

17. Job 6:29 תְּהִ֣י te.Hi · A mild command: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Return, I pray you, let there be no injustice; Yea, return again, my cause is righteous.

18. Job 7:20 וָאֶהְיֶ֖ה va.'eh.Yeh · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

19. Job 8:7 וְהָיָ֣ה ve.ha.Yah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase.

20. Job 10:19 הָיִ֣יתִי ha.Yi.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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