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)


  • Lamentations 1:21 - They have heard that I sigh there is none to comfort me all mine enemies They have heard of my trouble they are glad that thou hast done it thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called and they shall be like

  • Lamentations 2:5 - The Lord was as an enemy he hath swallowed up Israel he hath swallowed up all her palaces he hath destroyed his strong holds and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation

  • Lamentations 2:22 - Thou hast called day as in a solemn my terrors round about day anger of the LORD'S none escaped nor remained those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed

  • Lamentations 3:14 - I was a derision to all my people and their song all the day

  • Lamentations 3:37 - Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the Lord commandeth

  • Lamentations 3:47 - Fear and a snare is come upon us desolation and destruction

  • Lamentations 4:8 - is blacker than a coal Their visage they are not known in the streets cleaveth their skin to their bones it is withered it is become like a stick

  • Lamentations 4:9 - are better They that be slain with the sword They that be slain with hunger for these pine away stricken through for want of the fruits of the field

  • Lamentations 4:10 - The hands women of the pitiful have sodden their own children they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people

  • Lamentations 4:19 - are swifter Our persecutors than the eagles of the heaven us upon the mountains they pursued for us in the wilderness they laid wait

  • Lamentations 5:1 - Remember O LORD what is come upon us consider and behold our reproach

  • Lamentations 5:3 - We are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows

  • Lamentations 5:17 - is faint For this our heart are dim for these things our eyes

  • Leviticus 2:1 - And when any will offer his offering a meat unto the LORD shall be of fine flour his offering and he shall pour oil upon it and put frankincense

  • Leviticus 2:5 - be a meat offering baken in a pan And if thy oblation it shall be of fine flour mingled with oil unleavened

  • Leviticus 5:5 - And it shall be when he shall be guilty in one of these things that he shall confess that he hath sinned

  • Leviticus 5:13 - shall make an atonement And the priest for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in one of these and it shall be forgiven And the priest as a meat offering

  • Leviticus 6:4 - Then it shall be because he hath sinned and is guilty that he shall restore which he took violently away which he took violently away or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten or that which was delivered or that which was delivered or the lost thing which he found

  • Leviticus 6:23 - For every meat offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt it shall not be eaten

  • Leviticus 7:7 - As the sin offering is so is the trespass offering law there is one for them the priest that maketh atonement