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 19:2 - played the whore And his concubine house from him unto her father's to Bethlehemjudah whole and was there four months

  • Judges 19:5 - day And it came to pass on the fourth when they arose early in the morning that he rose up said father and the damsel's unto his son in law Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread and afterward

  • Judges 19:30 - And it was so done nor seen it said And it was so done nor seen There was no such deed from the day came up that the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt from the day consider of it take advice and speak

  • Judges 20:3 - heard Now the children of Benjamin were gone up Now the children of Israel to Mizpeh Then said Now the children of Israel Tell us how was this wickedness

  • Judges 20:12 - sent And the tribes of Israel men And the tribes of Benjamin saying What wickedness is this that is done

  • Judges 20:38 - Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait that they should make a great rise up flame with smoke out of the city

  • Judges 20:46 - So that all which fell of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword that day men of valour

  • Judges 21:3 - And said O LORD God in Israel in Israel lacking that there should be to day in Israel tribe one

  • Judges 21:4 - And it came to pass on the morrow rose early that the people and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings

  • Judges 21:5 - said And the children of Israel that came not up with the congregation Who is there among all the tribes of Israel to the LORD oath For they had made a great that came to the LORD to Mizpeh said He shall surely He shall surely

  • Judges 21:22 - come And it shall be when their fathers or their brethren unto us to complain that we will say unto them Be favourable unto them for our sakes because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war for ye did not give unto them at this time that ye should be guilty

  • Lamentations 1:1 - sit solitary How doth the city she that was great of people how is she become as a widow she that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces how is she become tributary

  • Lamentations 1:2 - She weepeth She weepeth in the night and her tears are on her cheeks she hath none to comfort among all her lovers her all her friends have dealt treacherously with her they are become her enemies

  • Lamentations 1:5 - Her adversaries are the chief her enemies prosper for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions her children are gone into captivity before Her adversaries

  • Lamentations 1:6 - is departed And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty her princes are become like harts that find no pasture without strength before the pursuer

  • Lamentations 1:7 - remembered Jerusalem in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things in the days of old fell when her people into the hand her the adversaries and none did help saw her the adversaries her and did mock at her sabbaths

  • Lamentations 1:8 - hath grievously sinned Jerusalem therefore she is removed all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness yea she sigheth and turneth backward

  • Lamentations 1:11 - All her people sigh they seek bread they have given for meat to relieve the soul see O LORD and consider for I am become vile

  • Lamentations 1:16 - For these things I weep mine eye mine eye runneth down with water is far because the comforter that should relieve my soul from me my children are desolate prevailed because the enemy

  • Lamentations 1:17 - spreadeth forth Zion her hands and there is none to comfort hath commanded her the LORD concerning Jacob should be round about that his adversaries him Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman