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));
Judges 16:11 - And he said me fast me fast ropes with new that never were occupied then shall I be weak and be as another man
Judges 16:16 - And it came to pass when she pressed with her words him daily and urged was vexed him so that his soul unto death
Judges 16:17 - That he told her all his heart and said a razor unto her There hath not come upon mine head for I have been a Nazarite unto God womb from my mother's if I be shaven will go then my strength from me and I shall become weak and be like any other man
Judges 16:21 - took But the Philistines him and put out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of brass and he did grind house
Judges 16:25 - were merry And it came to pass when their hearts that they said And they called for Samson that he may make us sport And they called for Samson house out of the prison sport and he made them and they set him between the pillars
Judges 16:30 - said And Samson Let me die with the Philistines And he bowed himself with all his might fell and the house upon the lords and upon all the people Let me die Let me die at his death were more Let me die in his life
Judges 17:1 - And there was a man of mount Ephraim whose name was Micah
Judges 17:4 - Yet he restored shekels of silver and his mother took and his mother two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to the founder who made thereof a graven image and a molten image and they were in the house of Micah
Judges 17:5 - And the man Micah had an house of gods and made an ephod and teraphim and consecrated one of his sons who became his priest
Judges 17:7 - And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of Judah of the family of Judah who was a Levite and he sojourned
Judges 17:10 - said And Micah unto him Dwell with me and be unto me a father and a priest and I will give thee ten shekels of silver by the year and a suit of apparel and thy victuals So the Levite
Judges 17:11 - was content And the Levite to dwell with the man and the young man was unto him as one of his sons
Judges 17:12 - consecrated And Micah the Levite and the young man became his priest and was in the house And Micah
Judges 17:13 - Then said Micah Now know will do me good I that the LORD seeing I have a Levite to my priest
Judges 18:4 - And he said and thus dealeth Micah with me and hath hired me and I am his priest
Judges 18:19 - And they said unto him Hold thy peace lay thine hand upon thy mouth with us and be to us a father and a priest is it better with us and be to us and a priest unto the house man of one with us and be to us and a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel
Judges 18:27 - And they took had made the things which Micah and the priest which he had and came unto Laish unto a people that were at quiet and secure and they smote them with the edge of the sword the city and burnt with fire
Judges 18:30 - set up And the children of Dan the graven image and Jonathan And the children of Gershom And the children of Manasseh And the children were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land
Judges 18:31 - And they set them up graven image Micah's which he made all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh
Judges 19:1 - And it came to pass in those days when there was no king in Israel that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah