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 23:15 - are come things Therefore it shall come to pass that as all good promised upon you which the LORD your God are come upon you which the LORD things upon you all evil until he have destroyed land Therefore it shall come to pass that as all good hath given upon you which the LORD your God

  • Joshua 24:27 - said And Joshua unto all the people Behold this stone shall be a witness unto us for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake shall be a witness unto you lest ye deny your God

  • Joshua 24:29 - And it came to pass after these things died that Joshua old of Nun the servant of the LORD old being an hundred and ten years

  • Joshua 24:32 - And the bones of Joseph brought up of the children of Israel out of Egypt buried of Shechem in a parcel of ground bought which Jacob of the children of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver of the children of Joseph and it became the inheritance

  • Judges 1:1 - Now after the death of Joshua asked it came to pass that the children of Israel the LORD saying Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first to fight

  • Judges 1:7 - said And Adonibezek Threescore and ten kings having their thumbs and their great toes cut off gathered their meat under my table as I have done hath requited so God me And they brought him to Jerusalem and there he died

  • Judges 1:14 - And it came to pass when she came to him that she moved him to ask of her father a field and she lighted from off her ass said and Caleb

  • Judges 1:19 - And the LORD was with Judah and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain but could not and he drave out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron

  • Judges 1:28 - was strong And it came to pass when Israel that they put the Canaanites to tribute and did not utterly and did not utterly

  • Judges 1:30 - Neither did Zebulun drive out dwelt of Kitron dwelt of Nahalol dwelt but the Canaanites among them and became tributaries

  • Judges 1:33 - Neither did Naphtali drive out but he dwelt of Bethshemesh but he dwelt and of Bethanath but he dwelt among the Canaanites but he dwelt of the land but he dwelt of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries

  • Judges 1:35 - would But the Amorites dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon and in Shaalbim prevailed yet the hand of the house of Joseph so that they became tributaries

  • Judges 2:3 - Wherefore I also said I will not drive them out from before you but they shall be as thorns in your sides and their gods shall be a snare

  • Judges 2:4 - spake And it came to pass when the angel of the LORD these words unto all the children of Israel lifted up that the people their voice and wept

  • Judges 2:15 - Whithersoever they went out the hand and as the LORD was against them for evil had said and as the LORD had sworn and as the LORD distressed unto them and they were greatly

  • Judges 2:18 - raised And when the LORD of the judge And when the LORD of the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge for it repented And when the LORD of their groanings because by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed

  • Judges 2:19 - And it came to pass when the judge that they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers gods other to serve them and to bow down unto them they ceased not from their own doings way nor from their stubborn

  • Judges 3:4 - And they were to prove Israel by them to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses

  • Judges 3:10 - And the Spirit and the LORD came upon him and he judged Israel and went out to war delivered and the LORD and his hand Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia prevailed and his hand Chushanrishathaim

  • Judges 3:18 - And when he had made an end to offer the present he sent away the people that bare the present