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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. Genesis 1:23 וַֽיְהִי־ vay.hi- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

  2. Genesis 1:23 וַֽיְהִי־ vay.hi- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

  3. Genesis 1:24 וַֽיְהִי־ vay.hi- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.

  4. Genesis 1:29 יִֽהְיֶ֖ה yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

  5. Genesis 1:30 וַֽיְהִי־ vay.hi- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.

  6. Genesis 1:31 וַֽיְהִי־ vay.hi- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

  7. Genesis 1:31 וַֽיְהִי־ vay.hi- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

  8. Genesis 2:5 יִֽהְיֶ֣ה yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;

  9. Genesis 2:7 וַֽיְהִ֥י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  10. Genesis 2:10 וְהָיָ֖ה ve.ha.Yah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.

  11. Genesis 2:18 הֱי֥וֹת he.Yot · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.

  12. Genesis 2:24 וְהָי֖וּ ve.ha.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  13. Genesis 2:25 וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ vai.yih.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

  14. Genesis 3:1 הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

  15. Genesis 3:5 וִהְיִיתֶם֙ vih.yi.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.

  16. Genesis 3:20 הָֽיְתָ֖ה ha.ye.Tah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

  17. Genesis 3:22 הָיָה֙ ha.Yah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Jehovah God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever—

  18. Genesis 4:2 וַֽיְהִי־ vay.hi- · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

  19. Genesis 4:2 הָיָ֖ה ha.Yah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And again she bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

  20. Genesis 4:3 וַֽיְהִ֖י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Jehovah.

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