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 11:39 - And it came to pass at the end of two months that she returned unto her father who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed and she knew no man And it was a custom in Israel

  • Judges 12:2 - said And Jephthah strife were unto them I and my people with the children of Ammon at great and when I called you ye delivered me not out of their hands

  • Judges 12:5 - took And the Gileadites the passages of Jordan and it was so that when those Ephraimites If he said which were escaped and it was so that when those Ephraimites Let me go over If he said that the men And the Gileadites unto him Art thou an Ephraimite If he said

  • Judges 12:9 - And he had thirty for his sons And he had thirty daughters whom he sent abroad And he had thirty daughters and took for his sons abroad And he judged Israel seven years

  • Judges 12:14 - And he had forty nephews and thirty nephews nephews that rode on threescore and ten ass colts and he judged Israel eight years

  • Judges 13:2 - man And there was a certain of Zorah of the family of the Danites whose name was Manoah and his wife was barren and bare

  • Judges 13:5 - and bear a son and no razor shall come on his head shall be a Nazarite unto God for the child from the womb and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines

  • Judges 13:7 - But he said and bear a son nor strong drink no wine and now drink neither eat any unclean shall be a Nazarite to God thing for the child from the womb to the day of his death

  • Judges 13:12 - said And Manoah come to pass Now let thy words How shall we order the child and how shall we do

  • Judges 13:20 - ascended For it came to pass when the flame from off the altar toward heaven ascended that the angel of the LORD For it came to pass when the flame from off the altar And Manoah and his wife looked on it and fell on their faces to the ground

  • Judges 14:11 - And it came to pass when they saw him that they brought thirty companions

  • Judges 14:15 - day And it came to pass on the seventh that they said wife unto Samson's Entice thy husband that he may declare unto us the riddle lest we burn house thee and thy father's with fire us to take that we have have ye called

  • Judges 14:17 - And she wept before him the seven day lasted while their feast lasted day and it came to pass on the seventh that he told her because she lay sore that he told the riddle to the children of her people

  • Judges 14:20 - wife But Samson's was given to his companion whom he had used as his friend

  • Judges 15:1 - But it came to pass within a while after But it came to pass within a while after harvest of wheat visited that Samson his wife with a kid and he said I will go in his wife into the chamber would not suffer But her father I will go in

  • Judges 15:2 - I verily And her father I verily I verily hated hated her therefore I gave her to thy companion sister is not her younger fairer

  • Judges 15:14 - And when he came unto Lehi the Philistines shouted against came mightily him and the Spirit of the LORD upon him and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire loosed and his bands from off his hands

  • Judges 15:17 - And it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand and called that place Ramathlehi

  • Judges 16:4 - And it came to pass afterward that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek whose name was Delilah

  • Judges 16:7 - said And Samson unto her If they bind me with seven withs green that were never dried then shall I be weak and be as another man