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)


  • Joshua 1:4 - From the wilderness and this Lebanon river and unto the great river Euphrates all the land of the Hittites sea and unto the great toward the going down of the sun shall be your coast

  • Joshua 1:5 - be able to stand There shall not any man before thee all the days of thy life as I was with Moses so I will be with thee I will not fail thee nor forsake

  • Joshua 1:17 - According as we hearkened be with thee as he was with Moses According as we hearkened unto thee only the LORD thy God be with thee as he was with Moses

  • Joshua 2:5 - of the gate And it came to pass about the time of shutting when it was dark went out I wot went not pursue them quickly after for ye shall overtake

  • Joshua 2:14 - answered her Our life for yours if ye utter not this our business hath given And it shall be when the LORD us the land that we will deal kindly and truly

  • Joshua 2:19 - And it shall be that whosoever shall go out of the doors and whosoever shall be with thee in the house into the street his blood shall be on our head and we will be guiltless And it shall be that whosoever and whosoever shall be with thee in the house his blood shall be on our head if any hand

  • Joshua 2:20 - And if thou utter this our business then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear

  • Joshua 3:2 - And it came to pass after three days went that the officers through the host

  • Joshua 3:4 - Yet there shall be a space between you and it about two thousand cubits by measure come not near unto it that ye may know the way for ye have not passed the way heretofore

  • Joshua 3:7 - said And the LORD unto Joshua This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel that they may know that as I was with Moses

  • Joshua 3:13 - shall rest And it shall come to pass as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD the Lord of all the earth from the waters of Jordan from the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above and they shall stand heap upon an

  • Joshua 3:14 - removed And it came to pass when the people from their tents to pass over Jordan and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before And it came to pass when the people

  • Joshua 4:1 - were clean And it came to pass when all the people passed over Jordan saying that the LORD unto Joshua saying

  • Joshua 4:6 - That this may be a sign among ask you that when your children their fathers in time to come saying What mean ye by these stones

  • Joshua 4:7 - Then ye shall answer were cut off the waters Jordan before the ark of the covenant of the LORD when it passed over Jordan were cut off the waters Jordan and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever

  • Joshua 4:9 - twelve stones set up And Joshua in the midst of Jordan stood in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant and they are there unto this day

  • Joshua 4:11 - were clean And it came to pass when all the people passed over passed over that the ark of the LORD and the priests in the presence And it came to pass when all the people

  • Joshua 4:18 - were come up And it came to pass when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the midst of Jordan were lifted up and the soles feet And it came to pass when the priests unto the dry land returned that the waters of Jordan unto their place as they did before over all his banks

  • Joshua 5:1 - heard And it came to pass when all the kings of the Amorites which were on the side of Jordan westward And it came to pass when all the kings of the Canaanites westward had dried up that the LORD the waters of Jordan from before of the children of Israel until we were passed over melted that their heart neither was there spirit from before of the children of Israel

  • Joshua 5:5 - Now them they had not circumcised all the people as they came forth all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt them they had not circumcised