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)


  • 2 Kings 12:16 - money The trespass money and sin was not brought into the house of the LORD it was the priests

  • 2 Kings 13:21 - And it came to pass as they were burying a man that behold they spied a band of men and they cast a man into the sepulchre of Elisha and touched a man the bones of Elisha he revived and stood up on his feet

  • 2 Kings 14:2 - old He was twenty and five years and reigned He was twenty and nine years and reigned in Jerusalem name And his mother's was Jehoaddan in Jerusalem

  • 2 Kings 14:5 - was confirmed And it came to pass as soon as the kingdom in his hand that he slew his servants that he slew the king his father

  • 2 Kings 15:2 - old Sixteen years and he reigned and fifty two years and he reigned in Jerusalem name And his mother's was Jecholiah in Jerusalem

  • 2 Kings 15:5 - smote And the LORD the king so that he was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt house in a several And Jotham son the king house judging the people of the land

  • 2 Kings 15:12 - This was the word of the LORD which he spake unto Jehu saying Thy sons unto the fourth shall sit on the throne of Israel

  • 2 Kings 15:19 - came And Pul the king of Assyria against the land gave and Menahem And Pul a thousand talents of silver in his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand

  • 2 Kings 15:33 - old and twenty Five years and he reigned sixteen years and he reigned in Jerusalem name And his mother's was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok

  • 2 Kings 16:15 - commanded And king Ahaz Urijah the priest saying altar Upon the great burn burnt offering the morning and his meat offering and the evening burnt offering And king and his meat offering burnt offering of all the people of the land and his meat offering and their drink offerings and all the blood burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice and sprinkle altar and the brasen shall be for me to enquire

  • 2 Kings 17:2 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD but not as the kings of Israel that were before

  • 2 Kings 17:3 - Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria and Hoshea became his servant and gave him presents

  • 2 Kings 17:7 - had sinned For so it was that the children of Israel against the LORD gods which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt and had feared gods other

  • 2 Kings 17:25 - And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there that they feared not the LORD sent not the LORD lions among them which slew

  • 2 Kings 17:28 - came Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria and dwelt in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the LORD

  • 2 Kings 17:29 - had made Howbeit every nation Howbeit every nation gods of their own and put them in the houses of the high places had made which the Samaritans Howbeit every nation Howbeit every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt

  • 2 Kings 17:32 - the LORD and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests of the high places and made for them in the houses of the high places

  • 2 Kings 17:33 - the LORD their own gods and served after the manner of the nations whom they carried away

  • 2 Kings 17:41 - So these nations the LORD their graven images and served and their children's and their children's and their children's as did their fathers as did they unto this day

  • 2 Kings 18:1 - year Now it came to pass in the third of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel began to reign that Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah