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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 6:3 וְהָי֣וּ ve.ha.Yu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days be a hundred and twenty years.

  2. Genesis 6:4 הָי֣וּ ha.Yu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.

  3. Genesis 6:9 הָיָ֖ה ha.Yah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, and perfect in his generations: Noah walked with God.

  4. Genesis 6:19 יִֽהְיֽוּ׃ Yih.Yu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

  5. Genesis 6:21 וְהָיָ֥ה ve.ha.Yah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them.

  6. Genesis 7:6 הָיָ֔ה ha.Yah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

  7. Genesis 7:10 וַֽיְהִ֖י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

  8. Genesis 7:10 הָי֖וּ ha.Yu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

  9. Genesis 7:12 וַֽיְהִ֥י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

  10. Genesis 7:17 וַֽיְהִ֧י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

  11. Genesis 8:5 הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

  12. Genesis 8:6 וַֽיְהִ֕י vay.Hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:

  13. Genesis 8:13 וַֽ֠יְהִי Vay.hi · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dried.

  14. Genesis 9:2 יִֽהְיֶ֔ה yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; with all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.

  15. Genesis 9:3 יִהְיֶ֖ה yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Every moving thing that liveth shall be food for you; as the green herb have I given you all.

  16. Genesis 9:11 יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

  17. Genesis 9:13 וְהָֽיְתָה֙ ve.ha.ye.Tah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

  18. Genesis 9:14 וְהָיָ֕ה ve.ha.Yah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

  19. Genesis 9:15 יִֽהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

  20. Genesis 9:16 וְהָיְתָ֥ה ve.ha.ye.Tah · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

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