H1961 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)


  • Job 1:14 - a messenger And there came unto Job and said The oxen were plowing and the asses feeding beside

  • Judges 1:14 - And it came to pass when she came to him that she moved him to ask of her father a field and she lighted from off her ass said and Caleb

  • Proverbs 1:14 - in thy lot Cast among purse us let us all have one

  • Genesis 1:15 - And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth

  • Daniel 1:16 - Thus Melzar took away of their meat and the wine that they should drink and gave them pulse

  • Ecclesiastes 1:16 - I communed with mine own heart saying Lo I am come to great estate and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem with mine own heart experience had great more wisdom and knowledge

  • Ezekiel 1:16 - The appearance of a wheel and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl likeness had one and they four The appearance and their work of a wheel in the middle of a wheel

  • 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

  • Obadiah 1:16 - For as ye have drunk mountain upon my holy For as ye have drunk so shall all the heathen continually For as ye have drunk and they shall swallow down and they shall be as though they had not

  • 2 Kings 1:17 - So he died according to the word of the LORD had spoken which Elijah reigned And Jehoram year in his stead in the second And Jehoram because he had no son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah because he had no son

  • Jonah 1:17 - had prepared Now the LORD fish a great to swallow up And Jonah And Jonah was in the belly fish and three days and three nights

  • Joshua 1:17 - According as we hearkened be with thee as he was with Moses According as we hearkened unto thee only the LORD thy God be with thee as he was with Moses

  • 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

  • Obadiah 1:17 - But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance and there shall be holiness shall possess and the house of Jacob their possessions

  • 1 Samuel 1:18 - And she said find Let thine handmaid grace in thy sight So the woman her way and did eat and her countenance

  • Isaiah 1:18 - and let us reason together saith the LORD though your sins be as scarlet as snow they shall be as white though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool

  • Obadiah 1:18 - And the house of Jacob shall be a fire And the house of Joseph a flame And the house of Esau for stubble and they shall kindle in them and devour them and there shall not be any remaining And the house of Esau for the LORD hath spoken

  • Genesis 1:19 - And the evening and the morning day were the fourth

  • Judges 1:19 - And the LORD was with Judah and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain but could not and he drave out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron

  • Ruth 1:19 - So they two And it came to pass when they were come to Bethlehem And it came to pass when they were come to Bethlehem was moved that all the city about them and they said Is this Naomi

  • Ezekiel 1:20 - Whithersoever the spirit Whithersoever the spirit and the wheels were lifted up over against Whithersoever the spirit of the living creature and the wheels

  • 1 Samuel 1:20 - was come Wherefore it came to pass when the time had conceived about after Hannah that she bare a son and called his name Samuel him of the LORD saying Because I have asked

  • Numbers 1:20 - And the children of Reuben eldest son Israel's by their generations after their families by the house of their fathers according to the number of the names by their polls every male And the children from twenty years and upward all that were able to go forth to war

  • Obadiah 1:21 - shall come up And saviours on mount Zion to judge on mount of Esau shall be the LORD'S and the kingdom

  • Daniel 1:21 - And Daniel year continued even unto the first Cyrus of king

  • Exodus 1:21 - feared And it came to pass because the midwives God that he made them houses

  • 1 Kings 1:21 - shall sleep Otherwise it shall come to pass when my lord the king with his fathers that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders

  • Isaiah 1:21 - become an harlot city How is the faithful it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers

  • Job 1:21 - And said Naked came I out womb of my mother's Naked shall I return and the LORD gave and the LORD hath taken away be the name and the LORD blessed

  • 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

  • Obadiah 1:21 - shall come up And saviours on mount Zion to judge on mount of Esau shall be the LORD'S and the kingdom

  • Esther 1:22 - For he sent letters into every province into all the king's into every province into every province according to the writing of every people of every people according to the language that every man should bear rule in his own house and that it should be published according to the language of every people

  • Isaiah 1:22 - Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixed with water

  • Genesis 1:23 - And the evening and the morning day were the fifth

  • Genesis 1:24 - said And God bring forth Let the earth creature and beast after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beast Let the earth after his kind

  • Ezekiel 1:25 - And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads when they stood and had let down their wings

  • 1 Kings 1:27 - by my lord the king done Is this thing and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant who should sit on the throne by my lord the king after

  • Ezekiel 1:28 - As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain As the appearance of the brightness round about As the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD And when I saw it I fell upon my face and I heard a voice of one that spake

  • 1 Samuel 1:28 - Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD as long as he liveth Therefore also I have lent him to the LORD And he worshipped him to the LORD

  • Judges 1:28 - was strong And it came to pass when Israel that they put the Canaanites to tribute and did not utterly and did not utterly

  • Genesis 1:29 - said And God Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in the which is the fruit and every tree bearing seed to you it shall be for meat

  • Genesis 1:30 - And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that creepeth of the earth And to every beast I have given every green herb for meat

  • Isaiah 1:30 - For ye shall be as an oak fadeth whose leaf and as a garden that hath no water

  • Judges 1:30 - Neither did Zebulun drive out dwelt of Kitron dwelt of Nahalol dwelt but the Canaanites among them and became tributaries

  • Genesis 1:31 - saw And God every thing that he had made good and behold it was very And the evening and the morning day were the sixth

  • Isaiah 1:31 - And the strong shall be as tow and the maker of it as a spark burn and they shall both together and none shall quench

  • Judges 1:33 - Neither did Naphtali drive out but he dwelt of Bethshemesh but he dwelt and of Bethanath but he dwelt among the Canaanites but he dwelt of the land but he dwelt of Bethshemesh and of Bethanath became tributaries

  • 1 Kings 1:35 - Then ye shall come up after him that he may come and sit upon my throne for he shall be king in my stead and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah

  • Judges 1:35 - would But the Amorites dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon and in Shaalbim prevailed yet the hand of the house of Joseph so that they became tributaries

  • 1 Kings 1:37 - As the LORD hath been with my lord king even so be he with Solomon and make his throne his throne hath been with my lord king David

  • Deuteronomy 1:39 - Moreover your little ones which ye said should be a prey and your children had no knowledge which in that day between good and evil they shall go in thither and unto them will I give it and they shall possess

  • Numbers 1:44 - These are those that were numbered These are those that were numbered which Moses and Aaron and the princes of Israel being twelve each one was for the house of his fathers

  • Numbers 1:45 - So were all those that were numbered of the children in Israel by the house of their fathers of the children from twenty years and upward all that were able to go forth to war in Israel

  • Numbers 1:46 - Even all they that were numbered were six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty

  • 1 Chronicles 1:51 - died Hadad also And the dukes of Edom also And the dukes Timnah also And the dukes Aliah also And the dukes Jetheth

  • 1 Kings 1:52 - said And Solomon man If he will shew himself a worthy of him fall there shall not an hair to the earth but if wickedness shall be found in him he shall die

  • Numbers 1:53 - But the Levites shall pitch round about of the tabernacle of testimony that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel shall keep But the Levites the charge of the tabernacle of testimony

  • Daniel 2:1 - year And in the second of the reign Nebuchadnezzar dreamed Nebuchadnezzar dreams was troubled wherewith his spirit and his sleep brake

  • Haggai 2:1 - In the seventh and twentieth month in the one day of the month came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet saying

  • 2 Kings 2:1 - would take up And it came to pass when the LORD Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven Elijah with Elisha from Gilgal

  • 2 Samuel 2:1 - And it came to pass after this enquired And David And the LORD And he said Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah And he said And the LORD Shall I go up And he said And David Shall I go up And he said Unto Hebron

  • Jeremiah 2:1 - Moreover the word of the LORD came to me saying

  • Job 2:1 - Again there was a day came when the sons of God them to present himself before the LORD came and Satan also among them to present himself before the LORD

  • 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

  • Nehemiah 2:1 - And it came to pass in the month Nisan year in the twentieth of Artaxerxes it unto the king that wine in his presence him and I took up that wine and gave it unto the king Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence

  • 1 Kings 2:2 - I go the way of all the earth be thou strong therefore and shew thyself a man

  • Isaiah 2:2 - And it shall come to pass in the last days shall be established of the mountains house of the LORD'S in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills shall flow and all nations

  • Joel 2:2 - A day of darkness and of gloominess A day of clouds and of thick darkness as the morning spread upon the mountains people a great and a strong there hath not been ever after the like neither shall be any more it even to the years generations generations

  • 1 Chronicles 2:3 - The sons of Judah And Er and Onan and Shelah which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess And Er the firstborn of Judah was evil in the sight of the LORD and he slew

  • Joel 2:3 - before devoureth A fire them and behind burneth them a flame is as the garden of Eden the land before them and behind wilderness them a desolate yea and nothing shall escape

  • Judges 2:3 - Wherefore I also said I will not drive them out from before you but they shall be as thorns in your sides and their gods shall be a snare

  • Judges 2:4 - spake And it came to pass when the angel of the LORD these words unto all the children of Israel lifted up that the people their voice and wept

  • 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

  • Zephaniah 2:4 - For Gaza shall be forsaken and Ashkelon a desolation Ashdod at the noon day they shall drive out and Ekron shall be rooted up

  • Esther 2:5 - there was a certain Jew Now in Shushan the palace whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish a Benjamite

  • Ezekiel 2:5 - And they whether they will hear or whether they will forbear house for they are a rebellious yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among

  • Genesis 2:5 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for had not caused it to rain the LORD God it was in the earth a man and there was not to till the ground

  • Joshua 2:5 - of the gate And it came to pass about the time of shutting when it was dark went out I wot went not pursue them quickly after for ye shall overtake

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Zechariah 2:5 - For I saith the LORD will be unto her a wall of fire round about and will be the glory in the midst

  • 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

  • Nehemiah 2:6 - said And the king unto me (the queen also sitting by him For how long shall thy journey be and when wilt thou return So it pleased And the king to send me and I set him a time

  • Zephaniah 2:6 - coast And the sea shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks

  • Ecclesiastes 2:7 - I got me servants and maidens and had servants born in my house possessions of great and small cattle also I had great before above all that were in Jerusalem

  • Esther 2:7 - And he brought up Hadassah that is Esther daughter his uncle's for she had neither father and mother and the maid was fair and beautiful were dead for she had neither father and mother took whom Mordecai daughter

  • Genesis 2:7 - formed And the LORD God and man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath became a living and man soul became a living

  • Habakkuk 2:7 - suddenly Shall they not rise up that shall bite that shall vex thee and thou shalt be for booties

  • 1 Kings 2:7 - unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite But shew kindness and let them be of those that eat at thy table for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother

  • 2 Samuel 2:7 - be strengthened Therefore now let your hands and be ye valiant is dead for your master Saul have anointed and also the house of Judah me king

  • Zephaniah 2:7 - And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah they shall feed of the house of Ashkelon in the evening shall they lie down shall visit for the LORD their God them and turn away their captivity

  • Esther 2:8 - was heard commandment So it came to pass when the king's and his decree were gathered together maidens and when many unto Shushan the palace to the custody of Hegai was brought that Esther house So it came to pass when the king's to the custody of Hegai keeper of the women

  • Ezekiel 2:8 - But thou son of man hear what I say unto thee Be not like that rebellious house like that rebellious open thy mouth and eat that I give

  • Ecclesiastes 2:9 - So I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem also my wisdom remained

  • Haggai 2:9 - shall be greater than The glory house of this latter of the former saith the LORD of hosts and in this place will I give peace saith the LORD of hosts

  • 2 Kings 2:9 - And it came to pass when they were gone over that Elijah said from thee And Elisha Ask what I shall do for thee before I be taken away said from thee And Elisha portion I pray thee let a double of thy spirit

  • Zechariah 2:9 - For behold I will shake mine hand upon them and they shall be a spoil and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent

  • Zephaniah 2:9 - Therefore as I live saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Surely Moab shall be as Sodom and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah even the breeding of nettles desolation and a perpetual the residue of my people shall spoil them and the remnant of my people shall possess