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 Samuel 10:5 - When they told it unto David he sent to meet them because the men ashamed were greatly said and the king Tarry at Jericho be grown until your beards and then return

  • 2 Samuel 10:9 - saw When Joab that the front of the battle that the front and behind he chose he chose men of Israel and put them in array against the Syrians

  • 2 Samuel 10:11 - And he said be too strong If the Syrians for me then thou shalt help me but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee then I will come and help

  • 2 Samuel 11:1 - was expired And it came to pass after the year at the time go forth when kings sent But David Joab and his servants with him and all Israel and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabbah But David tarried still at Jerusalem

  • 2 Samuel 11:2 - And it came to pass in an eveningtide arose that David from off his bed and walked and from the roof house of the king's he saw a woman washing and from the roof a woman beautiful to look upon was very

  • 2 Samuel 11:14 - And it came to pass in the morning wrote that David a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah

  • 2 Samuel 11:16 - observed And it came to pass when Joab the city that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant

  • 2 Samuel 11:20 - arise wrath And if so be that the king's and he say unto thee Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall

  • 2 Samuel 11:23 - said And the messenger unto David prevailed against us and came out unto us into the field and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate

  • 2 Samuel 11:27 - was past And when the mourning sent David and fetched her to his house and she became his wife and bare him a son displeased But the thing had done David the LORD

  • 2 Samuel 12:1 - sent And the LORD Nathan unto David And he came unto him and said unto him There were two men city and the other and the other rich and the other poor

  • 2 Samuel 12:2 - The rich flocks and herds many man had exceeding

  • 2 Samuel 12:3 - But the poor ewe lamb man had nothing save one little which he had bought and nourished up and it grew up with him and with his children together of his own meat it did eat of his own cup and drank in his bosom and lay and was unto him as a daughter

  • 2 Samuel 12:10 - depart Now therefore the sword from thine house shall never because thou hast despised me and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite the wife

  • 2 Samuel 12:18 - day And it came to pass on the seventh died Behold while the child feared And the servants of David to tell died Behold while the child for they said Behold while the child was yet alive we spake unto him and he would not hearken unto our voice for they said died Behold while the child himself vex

  • 2 Samuel 12:30 - And he took crown their king's from off his head the weight whereof was a talent of gold stones with the precious from off his head and it was set on David's the spoil of the city And he brought forth abundance in great

  • 2 Samuel 13:1 - And it came to pass after this that Absalom the son of David sister had a fair whose name was Tamar loved and Amnon the son of David

  • 2 Samuel 13:13 - And I whither shall I cause my shame and as for thee thou shalt be as one of the fools in Israel Now therefore I pray thee speak unto the king for he will not withhold

  • 2 Samuel 13:20 - said Absalom's he is thy brother unto her Hath Amnon he is thy brother my sister been with thee but hold now thy peace he is thy brother regard not this thing remained So Tamar house Absalom's he is thy brother

  • 2 Samuel 13:23 - years And it came to pass after two full had sheepshearers and Absalom in Baalhazor which is beside Ephraim invited and Absalom sons all the king's