Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H1961: הָיָה (hâyâh) Definition

Strong's number
H1961
Lemma
הָיָה
Transliteration
hâyâh
Pronunciation
haw-yaw
Strong's definition
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. a primitive root (compare H1933 (הָוָא));

3126 instances of the word הָיָה hâyâh (H1961)


  • Jeremiah 24:4 - Again the word of the LORD came unto me saying

  • Jeremiah 24:7 - And I will give them an heart to know me that I am the LORD and they shall be my people and I will be their God for they shall return them an heart

  • Jeremiah 25:1 - The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah year in the fourth of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah year that was the first of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon

  • Jeremiah 25:3 - From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah even unto this day From the thirteenth and twentieth year the word of the LORD and speaking unto you rising early and speaking but ye have not hearkened

  • Jeremiah 25:11 - And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment shall serve and these nations the king of Babylon seventy years

  • Jeremiah 25:12 - are accomplished And it shall come to pass when seventy years that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation saith the LORD for their iniquity and the land of the Chaldeans and will make desolations it perpetual

  • Jeremiah 25:28 - And it shall be if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand Ye shall certainly then shalt thou say then shalt thou say the LORD of hosts Ye shall certainly Ye shall certainly

  • Jeremiah 25:33 - And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day even unto the other end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth they shall not be lamented neither gathered nor buried they shall be dung upon the ground

  • Jeremiah 25:38 - He hath forsaken as the lion his covert for their land is desolate and because of his fierce of the oppressor and because of his fierce anger

  • Jeremiah 26:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the LORD saying

  • Jeremiah 26:8 - had made an end Now it came to pass when Jeremiah him to speak had commanded all that the LORD him to speak and all the people took that the priests and the prophets and all the people him saying Thou shalt surely Thou shalt surely

  • Jeremiah 26:9 - Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD saying shall be like Shiloh This house and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant were gathered And all the people against Jeremiah This house of the LORD

  • Jeremiah 26:18 - Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah Thus saith to all the people of Judah Thus saith Thus saith the LORD of hosts Zion like a field shall be plowed and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest

  • Jeremiah 26:20 - And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim that prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah

  • Jeremiah 26:24 - Nevertheless the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah that they should not give Nevertheless the hand of the people to put him to death

  • Jeremiah 27:1 - In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the LORD saying

  • Jeremiah 27:8 - And it shall come to pass that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar of the king of Babylon and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence will I punish And it shall come to pass that the nation saith the LORD until I have consumed them by his hand

  • Jeremiah 27:17 - Hearken not unto them serve the king of Babylon and live wherefore should this city be laid waste

  • Jeremiah 27:22 - to Babylon They shall be carried and there shall they be until the day that I visit them saith the LORD then will I bring them up and restore them to this place

  • Jeremiah 28:1 - And it came to pass the same year in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah And it came to pass the same year in the fourth month and in the fifth saying that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet which was of Gibeon unto me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and of all the people saying