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)


  • 1 Samuel 9:2 - And he had a son whose name was Saul a choice young man a goodlier person And he had a son of Israel a goodlier than he from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people

  • 1 Samuel 9:26 - And they arose early and it came to pass about the spring of the day called of them he and Samuel And Saul to the top of the house saying Up that I may send thee away Up And Saul and they went out both of them he and Samuel abroad

  • 1 Samuel 10:5 - After and it shall come to pass when thou art come thither to the hill of God where is the garrison of the Philistines and it shall come to pass when thou art come thither to the city that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place before with a psaltery and a tabret and a pipe and a harp them and they shall prophesy

  • 1 Samuel 10:7 - are come And let it be when these signs unto thee that thou do as occasion serve thee for God

  • 1 Samuel 10:9 - And it was so that when he had turned his back from Samuel gave God heart him another came and all those signs to pass that day

  • 1 Samuel 10:11 - And it came to pass when all that knew him beforetime saw also among the prophets that behold he prophesied said then the people one to another What is this that is come unto the son of Kish Is Saul also among the prophets

  • 1 Samuel 10:12 - of the same place answered And one and said But who is their father Therefore it became a proverb Is Saul also among the prophets

  • 1 Samuel 10:27 - But the children of Belial said How shall this man save us And they despised him and brought him no presents But he held his peace

  • 1 Samuel 11:8 - And when he numbered them in Bezek the children of Israel were three hundred thousand and the men of Judah thirty thousand

  • 1 Samuel 11:9 - And they said And the messengers came And they said unto the men of Jabesh To morrow ye shall have help be hot by that time the sun came And the messengers and shewed unto the men of Jabesh and they were glad

  • 1 Samuel 11:11 - And it was so on the morrow put that Saul the people in three companies and they came into the midst of the host watch in the morning and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day and it came to pass that they which remained were scattered and it came to pass that they which remained so that two together

  • 1 Samuel 12:14 - If ye will fear of the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following of the LORD your God

  • 1 Samuel 12:15 - But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD but rebel against the commandment of the LORD then shall the hand of the LORD be against you as it was against your fathers

  • 1 Samuel 13:2 - chose Saul him three and a thousand men of Israel Saul and a thousand in Michmash and in mount Bethel and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent

  • 1 Samuel 13:10 - And it came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering behold Samuel came went out and Saul to meet him that he might salute

  • 1 Samuel 13:21 - Yet they had a file for the mattocks and for the coulters and for the forks and for the axes and to sharpen the goads

  • 1 Samuel 13:22 - So it came to pass in the day of battle found that there was neither sword nor spear in the hand of any of the people but with Saul and Jonathan found but with Saul and Jonathan his son

  • 1 Samuel 14:1 - Now it came to pass upon a day said that Jonathan the son of Saul unto the young man that bare his armour and let us go over garrison to the Philistines that is on the other side not his father But he told

  • 1 Samuel 14:14 - slaughter And that first made which Jonathan and his armourbearer was about twenty men within as it were an half acre which a yoke of land

  • 1 Samuel 14:15 - And there was trembling in the host in the field and among all the people the garrison and the spoilers they also trembled quaked and the earth And there was trembling so it was a very great