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)


  • Malachi 2:4 - And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you that my covenant might be with Levi saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 2:5 - My covenant was with him of life and peace and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared before my name me and was afraid

  • Malachi 2:6 - The law of truth was in his mouth and iniquity was not found in his lips with me in peace and equity he walked many and did turn from iniquity

  • Malachi 3:3 - And he shall sit as a refiner and he shall purify and silver and he shall purify the sons of Levi and purge them as gold and silver unto the LORD that they may offer an offering in righteousness

  • Malachi 3:5 - And I will come near to you to judgment witness and I will be a swift against the sorcerers and against the adulterers swearers and against false and against those that oppress in his wages the hireling the widow and the fatherless and that turn aside the stranger from his right and fear not me saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 3:10 - Bring ye all the tithes in mine house into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now herewith saith the LORD of hosts if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough

  • Malachi 3:12 - shall call you blessed And all nations land for ye shall be a delightsome saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 3:17 - And they shall be mine saith the LORD of hosts in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare and I will spare them as a man his own son that serveth

  • Malachi 4:1 - For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble shall burn them up For behold the day cometh saith the LORD of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch

  • Malachi 4:3 - And ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith the LORD of hosts

  • Micah 1:1 - The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah kings of Judah which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem

  • Micah 1:2 - Hear all ye people hearken O earth and all that therein against you the Lord GOD be witness against you the Lord temple from his holy

  • Micah 2:5 - Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD

  • Micah 2:11 - If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie he shall even be the prophet unto thee of wine and of strong drink he shall even be the prophet of this people

  • Micah 3:12 - for your sake Therefore shall Zion as a field be plowed and Jerusalem shall become heaps and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest

  • Micah 4:1 - But in the last days it shall come to pass that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top it shall come to pass that the mountain and it shall be exalted above the hills shall flow and people

  • Micah 5:2 - But thou Bethlehem Ephratah though thou be little among the thousands of Judah yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel whose goings forth have been from of old from everlasting

  • Micah 5:5 - And this man shall be the peace when the Assyrian shall come into our land and when he shall tread in our palaces then shall we raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men

  • Micah 5:7 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst people of many as a dew from the LORD as the showers upon the grass that tarrieth not for man nor waiteth for the sons of men

  • Micah 5:8 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst people of many as a lion among the beasts of the forest as a young lion among the flocks of sheep who if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces and none can deliver