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 18:2 - old Twenty and five years and he reigned Twenty and nine years and he reigned in Jerusalem name His mother's also was Abi the daughter of Zachariah

  • 2 Kings 18:4 - He removed the high places and brake the images and cut down the groves and brake in pieces serpent the brasen had made that Moses for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it and he called it Nehushtan

  • 2 Kings 18:5 - in the LORD God of Israel He trusted so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah nor any that were before

  • 2 Kings 18:7 - And the LORD whithersoever he went forth was with him and he prospered and he rebelled against the king of Assyria and served

  • 2 Kings 18:9 - year And it came to pass in the fourth king Hezekiah year which was the seventh of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel came up that Shalmaneser king of Assyria against Samaria and besieged

  • 2 Kings 19:1 - heard And it came to pass when king Hezekiah it that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD

  • 2 Kings 19:25 - Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done times it and of ancient that I have formed it now have I brought it to pass that thou shouldest be to lay waste heaps into ruinous cities fenced

  • 2 Kings 19:26 - Therefore their inhabitants were of small power they were dismayed and confounded they were as the grass of the field and as the green herb as the grass on the housetops and as corn blasted before it be grown up

  • 2 Kings 19:35 - And it came to pass that night went out that the angel of the LORD and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand and when they arose early in the morning corpses behold they were all dead

  • 2 Kings 19:37 - And it came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god that Adrammelech and Sharezer his son smote him with the sword and they escaped into the land of Armenia reigned And Esarhaddon his son

  • 2 Kings 20:4 - And it came to pass afore Isaiah was gone out court into the middle that the word of the LORD came to him saying

  • 2 Kings 20:13 - hearkened And Hezekiah shewed and all the house of his precious things the silver and the gold and the spices ointment and the precious and all the house of his armour and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing shewed And Hezekiah and all the house nor in all his dominion

  • 2 Kings 20:15 - And he said What have they seen All the things that are in mine house And he said And Hezekiah All the things that are in mine house What have they seen there is nothing What have they seen among my treasures

  • 2 Kings 20:18 - And of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon

  • 2 Kings 20:19 - And he said Hezekiah unto Isaiah Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken And he said Is it not good if peace and truth be in my days

  • 2 Kings 21:14 - And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies and they shall become a prey and a spoil of their enemies

  • 2 Kings 21:15 - Because they have done that which was evil in my sight me to anger and have provoked even unto this day came forth their fathers out of Egypt even unto this day

  • 2 Kings 22:3 - And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah sent of king Shaphan the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam the scribe to the house of the LORD saying

  • 2 Kings 22:11 - had heard And it came to pass when the king the words of the book of the law that he rent his clothes

  • 2 Kings 22:19 - was tender Because thine heart and thou hast humbled before the LORD me I also have heard what I spake against this place and against the inhabitants thereof that they should become a desolation and a curse and hast rent thy clothes and wept before me I also have heard thee saith the LORD