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 51:26 - And they shall not take nor a stone for a corner nor a stone for foundations but thou shalt be desolate for ever saith the LORD

  • Jeremiah 51:30 - have forborn The mighty men of Babylon to fight they have remained in their holds hath failed their might they became as women they have burned her dwellingplaces are broken her bars

  • Jeremiah 51:37 - And Babylon shall become heaps a dwellingplace for dragons an astonishment and an hissing without an inhabitant

  • Jeremiah 51:41 - taken How is Sheshach surprised and how is the praise of the whole earth become an astonishment how is Babylon among the nations

  • Jeremiah 51:43 - Her cities are a desolation a land a dry and a wilderness a land dwelleth thereby wherein no man pass thereby neither doth any son of man

  • Jeremiah 51:62 - Then shalt thou say O LORD thou hast spoken against this place to cut it off that none shall remain in it neither man nor beast but that it shall be desolate for ever

  • Jeremiah 51:63 - And it shall be when thou hast made an end of reading this book that thou shalt bind a stone to it and cast it into the midst of Euphrates

  • Jeremiah 52:3 - For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah till he had cast them out For through from his presence rebelled that Zedekiah against the king of Babylon

  • Jeremiah 52:4 - year And it came to pass in the ninth of his reign day of the month in the tenth in the tenth day of the month came that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon he and all his army against Jerusalem and pitched against it and built forts against it round about

  • Jeremiah 52:6 - day of the month And in the fourth in the ninth day of the month was sore the famine in the city so that there was no bread for the people of the land

  • Jeremiah 52:20 - pillars The two sea one bulls The two brasen that were under the bases had made which king Solomon in the house of the LORD was without weight brasen of all these vessels

  • Jeremiah 52:23 - and all the pomegranates And there were ninety and six on a side and all the pomegranates were an hundred upon the network round about

  • Jeremiah 52:25 - also out of the city He took eunuch an which had the charge men of war and seven men of them that were near person the king's that were found also out of the city scribe and the principal of the host who mustered of the people of the land and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the midst also out of the city

  • Jeremiah 52:31 - and thirtieth And it came to pass in the seven in the first year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah in the twelfth month and twentieth in the five month lifted up that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him forth out of prison

  • Job 1:1 - There was a man in the land of Uz was Job whose name There was a man was perfect and upright and one that feared God and eschewed evil

  • Job 1:3 - His substance also was seven thousand sheep and three thousand camels and five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred she asses household great and a very so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east

  • Job 1:5 - were gone about And it was so when the days of their feasting sent Job and sanctified them and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number said Job It may be have sinned that my sons and cursed God in their hearts Thus did Job And it was so when the days

  • Job 1:6 - Now there was a day came when the sons of God to present themselves before the LORD came and Satan also among

  • Job 1:13 - And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine house brother's in their eldest

  • Job 1:14 - a messenger And there came unto Job and said The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside