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)


  • Ecclesiastes 2:10 - desired And whatsoever mine eyes I kept not from them I withheld for my heart from any joy for my heart rejoiced in all my labour and this was my portion in all my labour

  • Exodus 2:10 - grew And the child and she brought daughter him unto Pharaoh's and he became her son And she called his name Moses and she said him out of the water Because I drew

  • Genesis 2:10 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four heads

  • Haggai 2:10 - and twentieth In the four day of the ninth year month in the second of Darius came the word of the LORD Haggai the prophet saying

  • 2 Kings 2:10 - And he said a hard thing Thou hast asked nevertheless if thou see me when I am taken

  • 2 Samuel 2:10 - old was forty years Ishbosheth old Saul's and reigned over Israel two years and reigned But the house of Judah followed David

  • Jeremiah 2:10 - For pass over the isles of Chittim and see unto Kedar and send and consider diligently and see

  • Exodus 2:11 - And it came to pass in those days was grown when Moses that he went out one of his brethren and he spied on their burdens and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew one of his brethren

  • 1 Samuel 2:11 - And Elkanah to Ramah to his house And the child did minister unto the LORD before Eli the priest

  • 2 Kings 2:11 - And it came to pass as they still And it came to pass as they still and talked that behold there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire and parted asunder them both went up and Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven

  • 2 Samuel 2:11 - And the time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months

  • 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

  • Nehemiah 2:11 - So I came to Jerusalem days and was there three

  • Zechariah 2:11 - shall be joined nations And many that the LORD in that day and shall be my people and I will dwell in the midst of thee and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent

  • Esther 2:12 - was come turn Now when every maid's Now when every maid's to go in to king Ahasuerus after according to the manner of the women that she had been twelve months accomplished for so were the days of their purifications and six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet odours and with other things for the purifying of the women

  • Ruth 2:12 - recompense The LORD thy work reward and a full The LORD God of Israel thou art come to trust under whose wings

  • Nehemiah 2:13 - And I went out and the gates of the valley by night even before well the dragon and the gates and to the dung and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and the gates thereof were consumed with fire

  • Ruth 2:13 - Then she said Let me find favour in thy sight my lord for that thou hast comforted me and for that thou hast spoken friendly of thine handmaidens though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens

  • Jeremiah 2:14 - a servant Is Israel is he a homeborn slave why is he spoiled

  • Joshua 2:14 - answered her Our life for yours if ye utter not this our business hath given And it shall be when the LORD us the land that we will deal kindly and truly

  • Deuteronomy 2:15 - For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them to destroy them from among the host until they were consumed

  • Esther 2:15 - was come Now when the turn And Esther her for his daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her for his daughter to go in the king's she required nothing appointed but what Hegai chamberlain the king's the keeper of the women And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked

  • 1 Kings 2:15 - And he said Thou knowest howbeit the kingdom set was mine and that all Israel their faces on me that I should reign is turned about howbeit the kingdom and is become my brother's for it was his from the LORD

  • Judges 2:15 - Whithersoever they went out the hand and as the LORD was against them for evil had said and as the LORD had sworn and as the LORD distressed unto them and they were greatly

  • Nehemiah 2:15 - Then went I up by the brook in the night and viewed the wall and so returned and entered by the gate of the valley and so returned

  • Zephaniah 2:15 - city This is the rejoicing that dwelt carelessly that said in her heart I am and there is none beside me how is she become a desolation to lie down in a place for beasts every one that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his hand

  • Deuteronomy 2:16 - were consumed So it came to pass when all the men of war and dead from among the people

  • Haggai 2:16 - Since those days were when one came to an heap of twenty measures there were but ten Since those days were when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press of twenty

  • Hosea 2:16 - And it shall be at that day saith the LORD and shalt call me Ishi and shalt call me no more Baali

  • 1 Samuel 2:17 - Wherefore the sin of the young men great was very before of the LORD abhorred for men the offering of the LORD

  • 2 Samuel 2:17 - battle sore And there was a very that day was beaten and Abner of Israel before the servants of David

  • Nehemiah 2:17 - Then said I unto them Ye see the distress of Jerusalem lieth waste and the gates thereof are burned with fire and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem that we be no more a reproach

  • Ruth 2:17 - So she gleaned in the field until even and beat out So she gleaned and it was about an ephah of barley

  • Ecclesiastes 2:18 - Yea I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after

  • Genesis 2:18 - said And the LORD God It is not good should be that the man alone I will make him an help meet

  • 2 Samuel 2:18 - And there were three sons of Zeruiah there Joab and Abishai and Asahel and Asahel was as light of foot as a roe wild

  • Judges 2:18 - raised And when the LORD of the judge And when the LORD of the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge for it repented And when the LORD of their groanings because by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed

  • Ecclesiastes 2:19 - And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun This is also vanity

  • Joshua 2:19 - And it shall be that whosoever shall go out of the doors and whosoever shall be with thee in the house into the street his blood shall be on our head and we will be guiltless And it shall be that whosoever and whosoever shall be with thee in the house his blood shall be on our head if any hand

  • Judges 2:19 - And it came to pass when the judge that they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers gods other to serve them and to bow down unto them they ceased not from their own doings way nor from their stubborn

  • Ruth 2:19 - and said And her mother in law and where unto her Where hast thou gleaned to day with whom I wrought be he that did take knowledge thou blessed of thee And she shewed And her mother in law with whom I wrought and said name The man's with whom I wrought to day is Boaz

  • Esther 2:20 - Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people had charged as Mordecai the commandment as Mordecai Esther did like as when she was brought up

  • Haggai 2:20 - the word of the LORD And again came unto Haggai and twentieth in the four day of the month saying

  • Joshua 2:20 - And if thou utter this our business then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear

  • Hosea 2:21 - And it shall come to pass in that day I will hear saith the LORD I will hear the heavens I will hear the earth

  • 2 Kings 2:21 - And he went forth unto the spring of the waters and cast the salt Thus saith Thus saith the LORD I have healed of the waters there shall not be from thence any more death or barren

  • Exodus 2:22 - And she bare him a son and he called his name Gershom for he said I have been a stranger land in a strange

  • 1 Chronicles 2:22 - And Segub begat Jair and twenty who had three cities in the land of Gilead

  • Lamentations 2:22 - Thou hast called day as in a solemn my terrors round about day anger of the LORD'S none escaped nor remained those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed

  • Exodus 2:23 - of time And it came to pass in process died that the king of Egypt sighed and the children of Israel by reason of by reason of the bondage and they cried came up and their cry unto God by reason of by reason of the bondage

  • 2 Samuel 2:23 - Howbeit he refused to turn aside smote wherefore Abner behind of the spear him under the fifth came out of the spear behind fell down and died in the same place and it came to pass that as many as came him under to the place fell down where Asahel and died stood still

  • Genesis 2:24 - Therefore leave shall a man his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife flesh and they shall be one

  • Genesis 2:25 - And they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed

  • 1 Chronicles 2:25 - And the sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron the firstborn were Ram and Bunah and Oren and Ozem and Ahijah

  • 2 Samuel 2:25 - gathered themselves together And the children of Benjamin after Abner troop and became one and stood on the top of an hill and became one

  • 1 Chronicles 2:26 - wife had also another Jerahmeel whose name was Atarah she was the mother of Onam

  • 2 Samuel 2:26 - called Then Abner to Joab and said for ever devour Shall the sword knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end and said the people return from following their brethren

  • 1 Chronicles 2:27 - And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were Maaz and Jamin and Eker

  • 1 Kings 2:27 - thrust out So Solomon Abiathar from being priest of the LORD that he might fulfil the word of the LORD which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh

  • 1 Samuel 2:27 - And there came a man of God unto Eli and said and said the LORD Did I plainly Did I plainly house of thy father when they were in Egypt house in Pharaoh's

  • 1 Chronicles 2:28 - And the sons of Onam of Shammai and Jada And the sons of Shammai Nadab and Abishur

  • Jeremiah 2:28 - But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee let them arise if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble for according to the number of thy cities But where are thy gods O Judah

  • Joel 2:28 - And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh shall prophesy and your sons and your daughters your old men shall dream dreams your young men visions shall see

  • 1 Samuel 2:31 - Behold the days come that I will cut off and the arm and the arm house of thy father's that there shall not be an old man house

  • Jeremiah 2:31 - O generation see ye the word of the LORD Have I been a wilderness unto Israel a land of darkness wherefore say my people We are lords we will come

  • 1 Samuel 2:32 - And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation in all the wealth which God shall give Israel and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever

  • Joel 2:32 - And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name as the LORD shall be delivered for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance hath said as the LORD and in the remnant as the LORD And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall call

  • 1 Chronicles 2:33 - And the sons of Jonathan Peleth and Zaza And the sons of Jerahmeel

  • 1 Kings 2:33 - shall therefore return Their blood and upon the head of Joab and upon the head and upon his seed ever but upon David and upon his seed and upon his house and upon his throne shall there be peace for ever from the LORD

  • 1 Chronicles 2:34 - And Sheshan had no sons but daughters And Sheshan had a servant an Egyptian whose name was Jarha

  • Deuteronomy 2:36 - From Aroer which is by the brink of the river of Arnon and from the city of the river even unto Gilead there was not one city too strong delivered for us the LORD our God all unto us

  • 1 Samuel 2:36 - And it shall come to pass that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread and shall say Put me I pray thee into one of the priests' offices that I may eat a piece of bread

  • 1 Kings 2:37 - For it shall be that on the day thou goest out and passest over the brook Kidron for certain for certain die die thy blood shall be upon thine own head

  • 1 Kings 2:39 - And it came to pass at the end of three years ran away that two Behold thy servants Shimei unto Achish son of Maachah king be in Gath And they told Shimei saying Behold thy servants be in Gath

  • 1 Kings 2:45 - And king Solomon shall be blessed and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD for ever

  • 1 Chronicles 2:50 - These were the sons of Caleb These were the sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephratah Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim

  • 1 Chronicles 2:52 - had sons And Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim Haroeh and half of the Manahethites

  • Exodus 3:1 - Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God even to Horeb

  • Genesis 3:1 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field had made which the LORD God And he said unto the woman Yea And he said God Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden

  • 1 Chronicles 3:1 - Now these were the sons of David which were born unto him in Hebron the firstborn Amnon of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess the second Daniel of Abigail the Carmelitess

  • 1 Samuel 3:1 - And the child Samuel ministered of the LORD before Eli And the word of the LORD was precious in those days vision there was no open

  • 2 Samuel 3:1 - war Now there was long and the house of Saul and the house but David but David waxed and stronger and the house of Saul waxed and weaker

  • Jeremiah 3:1 - They say put away If a man his wife and she go If a man from him and become another shall he return unto her again be greatly be greatly shall not that land but thou hast played the harlot lovers with many shall he return unto her again to me saith the LORD

  • Jonah 3:1 - And the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the second time saying

  • 1 Samuel 3:2 - And it came to pass at that time when Eli was laid down in his place and his eyes began to wax dim that he could not see

  • 2 Samuel 3:2 - born And unto David were sons in Hebron and his firstborn was Amnon of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess

  • Joshua 3:2 - And it came to pass after three days went that the officers through the host

  • Ruth 3:2 - And now is not Boaz of our kindred with whose maidens thou wast Behold he winnoweth in the threshingfloor barley to night

  • Ezekiel 3:3 - And he said unto me Son of man cause thy belly thee Then did I eat thy bowels and fill with this roll that I give thee Then did I eat it and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness

  • Hosea 3:3 - And I said days for me many unto her Thou shalt abide thou shalt not play the harlot and thou shalt not be for another man

  • Jeremiah 3:3 - have been withholden Therefore the showers and there hath been no latter rain forehead and thou hadst a whore's thou refusedst to be ashamed

  • Jonah 3:3 - arose So Jonah Now Nineveh according to the word of the LORD Now Nineveh city great was an exceeding journey of three days

  • 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

  • Zechariah 3:3 - Now Joshua was clothed garments with filthy and stood before the angel

  • Deuteronomy 3:4 - And we took all his cities at that time there was not a city which we took not from them threescore all his cities all the region of Argob the kingdom of Og in Bashan

  • Esther 3:4 - Now it came to pass when they spake daily daily unto him and he hearkened for he had told Haman to see would stand matters whether Mordecai's for he had told them that he was a Jew

  • Habakkuk 3:4 - And his brightness was as the light he had horns coming out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power

  • 2 Kings 3:4 - And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster and rendered king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs an hundred thousand rams with the wool

  • Job 3:4 - Let that day be darkness regard let not God it from above shine neither let the light

  • Joshua 3:4 - Yet there shall be a space between you and it about two thousand cubits by measure come not near unto it that ye may know the way for ye have not passed the way heretofore