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 25:2 - And there was a man in Maon whose possessions in Carmel And there was a man great was very his sheep and he had three and a thousand and a thousand goats and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel

  • 1 Samuel 25:7 - And now I have heard that thou hast shearers now thy shepherds which were with us we hurt missing them not neither was there ought unto them all the while they were in Carmel

  • 1 Samuel 25:15 - But the men good were very unto us and we were not hurt neither missed we any thing as long as we were conversant with them when we were in the fields

  • 1 Samuel 25:16 - They were a wall unto us both by night and day all the while we were with them keeping the sheep

  • 1 Samuel 25:20 - And it was so as she rode on the ass came down by the covert of the hill and behold David came down against her and she met

  • 1 Samuel 25:26 - Now therefore my lord liveth as the LORD liveth and as thy soul hath withholden as the LORD thee from coming to shed blood and from avenging thyself with thine own hand be as Nabal now let thine enemies and they that seek Now therefore my lord evil

  • 1 Samuel 25:29 - is risen Yet a man to pursue thee and to seek and the souls and the souls of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God and the souls of thine enemies them shall he sling out as out of the middle of a sling

  • 1 Samuel 25:30 - shall have done And it shall come to pass when the LORD to my lord that he hath spoken according to all the good concerning thee and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel

  • 1 Samuel 25:31 - That this shall be no grief unto thee nor offence of heart or that my lord either that thou hast shed blood causeless hath avenged or that my lord shall have dealt well himself but when the LORD or that my lord then remember thine handmaid

  • 1 Samuel 25:37 - But it came to pass in the morning was gone out when the wine of Nabal had told and his wife him these things died that his heart within him and he became as a stone

  • 1 Samuel 25:38 - And it came to pass about ten days smote after that the LORD Nabal that he died

  • 1 Samuel 25:42 - hasted and arose And Abigail and rode upon an ass with five damsels of hers that went after of hers that went after the messengers of David and became his wife

  • 1 Samuel 25:43 - Ahinoam also took David of Jezreel and they were also both of them his wives

  • 1 Samuel 27:6 - gave Then Achish that day him Ziklag him Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah that day

  • 1 Samuel 27:7 - And the time was a full year dwelt that David in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months

  • 1 Samuel 27:12 - believed And Achish David saying to abhor to abhor He hath made his people Israel him therefore he shall be my servant for ever

  • 1 Samuel 28:1 - And it came to pass in those days gathered that the Philistines their armies for warfare to fight with Israel said And Achish unto David Know Know that thou shalt go out their armies

  • 1 Samuel 28:16 - Then said Samuel Wherefore then dost thou ask of me seeing the LORD is departed from thee and is become thine enemy

  • 1 Samuel 28:20 - straightway Then Saul fell all along on the earth afraid and was sore because of the words of Samuel and there was no strength in him for he had eaten no bread all the day nor all the night

  • 1 Samuel 28:22 - Now therefore I pray thee hearken thou also unto the voice of thine handmaid and let me set before a morsel of bread thee and eat that thou mayest have strength on thy way