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הָיָה

ha.yah · to be

Hebrew · Strong's H1961 · Verb · Sounds like: haw-yaw · 3,562 occurrences

English

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)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
הָיָה 3570 vb. fall out, come to pass, become, be
Qal
I.
1.
a. Fall out, happen
b. occur, take place, come about, come to pass
2. esp. & very oft., come about, come to pass
a.
(1). וַיְהִי and it came to pass that, most often (c. 292 t.)
(2). rarely also Pf. c. וְ conj. וְהָיָה
b. less oft. וְהָיָה Pf. consec. and it shall come to pass, or frequentat. came to pass (repeatedly, etc.)
II. Come into being, become
1.
a. abs., in lively narrative, arise, appear, come
b. sq. prep.
2. become
a. sq. pred. noun (to be viewed as implicit accus.)
b. sq. pred. adj.
c. become like
d. sq. pred. לְ pers.
e. sq. לְ pred.
f. oft. c. לְ pred. לְ pers.
g. with עַל and לְ
h. sts. c. לְ pers. only = became the property of, come into the possession of
III. Be (often with subbordinate idea of becoming)
1. exist, be in existence
2. abide, remain, continue
3. with word of locality, be in or at a place, be situated, stand, lie
4. as copula, joining subj. & pred.
5. periphrastic conjug.
Niph.
1. either be done, be brought about, or occur, come to pass
2. be done, finished, gone

Every occurrence

  1. Numbers 1:4 יִהְי֔וּ yih.Yu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of his fathers' house.

  2. Numbers 1:20 וַיִּהְי֤וּ vai.yih.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And the children of Reuben, Israel's first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers' houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

  3. Numbers 1:44 הָיֽוּ׃ ha.Yu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    These are they that were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: they were each one for his fathers' house.

  4. Numbers 1:45 וַיִּֽהְי֛וּ vai.yih.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    So all they that were numbered of the children of Israel by their fathers' houses, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

  5. Numbers 1:46 וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ vai.yih.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.

  6. Numbers 1:53 יִהְיֶ֣ה yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    But the Levites shall encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

  7. Numbers 3:4 הָי֣וּ ha.Yu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah, when they offered strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children; and Eleazar and Ithamar ministered in the priest's office in the presence of Aaron their father.

  8. Numbers 3:12 וְהָ֥יוּ ve.Ha.yu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And I, behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the first-born that openeth the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:

  9. Numbers 3:13 יִהְי֖וּ yih.Yu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    for all the first-born are mine; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the first-born in Israel, both man and beast; mine they shall be: I am Jehovah.

  10. Numbers 3:17 וַיִּֽהְיוּ־ vai.yih.yu- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And these were the sons of Levi by their names: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

  11. Numbers 3:43 וַיְהִי֩ vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And all the first-born males according to the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.

  12. Numbers 3:45 וְהָיוּ־ ve.ha.yu- · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.

  13. Numbers 4:7 יִהְיֶֽה׃ yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And upon the table of showbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls and the cups wherewith to pour out; and the continual bread shall be thereon:

  14. Numbers 4:27 תִּהְיֶ֗ה tih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burden.

  15. Numbers 4:36 וַיִּהְי֥וּ vai.yih.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    and those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.

  16. Numbers 4:40 וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ vai.yih.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers' houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

  17. Numbers 4:44 וַיִּהְי֥וּ vai.yih.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    even those that were numbered of them by their families, were three thousand and two hundred.

  18. Numbers 4:48 וַיִּהְי֖וּ vai.yih.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.

  19. Numbers 5:9 יִהְיֶֽה׃ yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And every heave-offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they present unto the priest, shall be his.

  20. Numbers 5:10 יִהְי֑וּ yih.Yu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.

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