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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. Obadiah 1:16 וְהָי֖וּ ve.ha.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

  2. Obadiah 1:16 הָיֽוּ׃ ha.Yu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the nations drink continually; yea, they shall drink, and swallow down, and shall be as though they had not been.

  3. Obadiah 1:17 תִּהְיֶ֥ה tih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

  4. Obadiah 1:17 וְהָ֣יָה ve.Ha.yah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

  5. Obadiah 1:18 וְהָיָה֩ ve.ha.Yah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.

  6. Obadiah 1:18 יִֽהְיֶ֤ה yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall burn among them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining to the house of Esau; for Jehovah hath spoken it.

  7. Obadiah 1:21 וְהָיְתָ֥ה ve.ha.ye.Tah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be Jehovah's.

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