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)


  • Judges 3:27 - And it came to pass when he was come that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim went down and the children of Israel in the mountain and he before

  • Judges 3:31 - And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath which slew of the Philistines six hundred men goad with an ox and he also delivered Israel

  • Judges 4:9 - And she said I will surely I will surely with thee notwithstanding shall not be for thine honour the journey I will surely into the hand of a woman shall sell for the LORD Sisera arose And Deborah I will surely with Barak to Kedesh

  • Judges 4:20 - Again he said unto her Stand in the door of the tent and it shall be when any man doth come and enquire Again he said Is there and it shall be when any man Again he said

  • Judges 6:3 - had sown And so it was when Israel came up that the Midianites and the Amalekites and the children of the east came up

  • Judges 6:7 - cried And it came to pass when the children of Israel unto the LORD because of the Midianites

  • Judges 6:16 - said And the LORD unto him Surely I will be with thee and thou shalt smite the Midianites man as one

  • Judges 6:25 - And it came to pass the same night said that the LORD unto him Take bullock bullock that thy father bullock even the second of seven years old and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father the grove hath and cut down

  • Judges 6:27 - took Then Gideon ten of his servants and did had said as the LORD unto him and so it was because he feared household his father's of the city and did it by day and did it by night

  • Judges 6:37 - Behold I will put a fleece of wool in the floor and if the dew a fleece upon all the earth only and it be dry beside then shall I know that thou wilt save by mine hand Israel as thou hast said

  • Judges 6:38 - And it was so for he rose up early on the morrow and thrust out of the fleece and wringed the dew out of the fleece full a bowl of water

  • Judges 6:39 - said And Gideon unto God be hot Let not thine anger against me and I will speak I pray thee but this once let me prove I pray thee but this once only upon the fleece let it now be dry only upon the fleece and upon all the ground let there be dew

  • Judges 6:40 - did And God so that night for it was dry upon the fleece on all the ground only and there was dew

  • Judges 7:1 - that were with him rose up early Then Jerubbaal who is Gideon and all the people and pitched beside the well of Harod so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them by the hill of Moreh in the valley

  • Judges 7:4 - said And the LORD unto Gideon The people are yet too many bring them down unto the water and I will try said said

  • Judges 7:6 - And the number of them that lapped putting their hand to their mouth were three hundred men but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water

  • Judges 7:8 - took victuals So the people in their hand and their trumpets all the rest of Israel and he sent all unto his tent those three hundred all and retained and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley

  • Judges 7:9 - And it came to pass the same night said that the LORD unto him Arise get thee down unto the host for I have delivered it into thine hand

  • Judges 7:15 - heard And it was so when Gideon the telling of the dream and the interpretation thereof that he worshipped and returned into the host of Israel and said Arise hath delivered for the LORD into your hand into the host of Midian

  • Judges 7:17 - And he said unto them Look it shall be that as I do likewise and behold when I come to the outside of the camp it shall be that as I do it shall be that as I do