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));
2 Samuel 15:32 - And it came to pass that when David was come to the top of the mount where he worshipped God came to meet behold Hushai the Archite rent him with his coat and earth to the top
2 Samuel 15:33 - said Unto whom David If thou passest on with me then thou shalt be a burden
2 Samuel 15:34 - to the city But if thou return and say unto Absalom I will be thy servant O king I will be thy servant as I have been thy father's hitherto I will be thy servant then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel
2 Samuel 15:35 - And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests therefore it shall be that what thing soever thou shalt hear house out of the king's thou shalt tell And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests
2 Samuel 16:16 - was come And it came to pass when Hushai the Archite friend David's unto Absalom said And it came to pass when Hushai unto Absalom God save the king God save the king
2 Samuel 16:18 - said And Hushai unto Absalom choose Nay but whom the LORD and this people and all the men of Israel his will I be and with him will I abide
2 Samuel 16:19 - And again as I have served presence of his son as I have served presence in thy father's presence
2 Samuel 17:3 - And I will bring back all the people And I will bring back unto thee the man whom thou seekest all the people shall be in peace
2 Samuel 17:9 - Behold he is hid now in some pit now in some other place and it will come to pass when some of them be overthrown at the first heareth heareth it will say There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom
2 Samuel 17:21 - And it came to pass after that they came up out of the well and told king David and said David Arise over and pass quickly the water counselled for thus hath Ahithophel
2 Samuel 17:27 - was come And it came to pass when David to Mahanaim that Shobi of the children of Nahash of Rabbah of the children of Ammon and Machir of the children of Ammiel of Lodebar and Barzillai the Gileadite of Rogelim
2 Samuel 18:3 - answered But the people Thou shalt not go forth away away they will not care of us die for us neither if half they will not care for us but now thou art worth ten thousand of us therefore now it is better us out of the city that thou succour
2 Samuel 18:6 - went out So the people into the field against Israel and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim
2 Samuel 18:7 - were slain Where the people of Israel before the servants of David slaughter and there was there a great that day of twenty thousand
2 Samuel 18:8 - For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country more and the wood devoured people devoured than the sword that day
2 Samuel 18:22 - yet again Ahimaaz my son of Zadok Then said And Joab But howsoever Wherefore wilt thou run after Cushi Then said And Joab But howsoever Wherefore wilt thou run my son seeing that thou hast no tidings ready
2 Samuel 18:23 - But howsoever said he let me run And he said But howsoever said he let me run But howsoever said he let me run Then Ahimaaz by the way of the plain and overran Cushi
2 Samuel 18:32 - answered And the king And Cushi safe Is the young man Absalom answered And Cushi Is the young man The enemies of my lord And the king and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt
2 Samuel 19:2 - And the victory that day was turned into mourning for the people heard for the people that day say was grieved how the king for his son
2 Samuel 19:9 - And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel saying The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom