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)


  • Psalms 72:17 - His name shall endure for ever as long as the sun shall be continued His name and men shall be blessed in him all nations shall call him blessed

  • Psalms 73:14 - long have I been plagued For all the day and chastened every morning

  • Psalms 73:19 - How are they brought into desolation as in a moment they are utterly consumed with terrors

  • Psalms 73:22 - So foolish was I and ignorant I was as a beast

  • Psalms 76:2 - In Salem also is his tabernacle and his dwelling place in Zion

  • Psalms 78:8 - And might not be as their fathers a generation a stubborn and rebellious a generation aright not their heart was not stedfast with God and whose spirit

  • Psalms 79:4 - We are become a reproach to our neighbours a scorn and derision to them that are round about

  • Psalms 80:17 - Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the son of man whom thou madest strong

  • Psalms 81:9 - god There shall no strange be in thee neither shalt thou worship god any strange

  • Psalms 81:15 - The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him but their time should have endured for ever

  • Psalms 83:8 - Assur also is joined with them they have holpen the children of Lot Selah

  • Psalms 83:10 - Which perished at Endor they became as dung for the earth

  • Psalms 88:4 - I am counted with them that go down into the pit I am as a man that hath no strength

  • Psalms 89:36 - His seed shall endure for ever and his throne as the sun

  • Psalms 89:41 - spoil All that pass by the way him he is a reproach to his neighbours

  • Psalms 90:1 - Lord thou hast been our dwelling place generations generations

  • Psalms 90:5 - Thou carriest them away as with a flood they are as a sleep in the morning they are like grass which groweth up

  • Psalms 90:17 - And let the beauty our God thou the work of our hands be upon us and establish thou the work of our hands be upon us and establish

  • Psalms 92:14 - They shall still bring forth fruit in old age they shall be fat and flourishing

  • Psalms 94:22 - But the LORD is my defence and my God is the rock of my refuge