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 19:11 - And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests saying Speak unto the elders of Judah saying Why are ye the last back And king even to his house seeing the speech of all Israel is come And king even to his house

  • 2 Samuel 19:12 - Ye are my brethren ye are my bones and my flesh wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king

  • 2 Samuel 19:13 - ye to Amasa And say Art thou not of my bone and of my flesh do God so to me and more also if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab

  • 2 Samuel 19:22 - said And David What have I to do with you ye sons of Zeruiah that I am this day be adversaries that I am this day be put to death unto me shall there any man in Israel for do not I know that I am this day king in Israel

  • 2 Samuel 19:25 - And it came to pass when he was come to Jerusalem to meet that the king said that the king unto him Wherefore wentest not thou with me Mephibosheth

  • 2 Samuel 19:28 - were but house For all of my father's dead before my lord any more unto the king yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine own table therefore have What right I yet to cry any more unto the king

  • 2 Samuel 19:35 - old fourscore years I am this day and can I discern between good and evil taste can thy servant or what I eat or what I drink can I hear any more the voice and singing women and singing women can thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king

  • 2 Samuel 19:43 - answered And the men of Israel And the men of Judah and said We have ten parts in the king have also more right in David and we than ye why then did ye despise And the words should not be first had in bringing back in the king were fiercer And the words And the men of Judah And the words And the men of Israel

  • 2 Samuel 20:3 - came And David the house at Jerusalem took and the king the ten women his concubines whom he had left to keep the house and put the house them in ward and fed came unto them So they were shut up unto the day in widowhood living

  • 2 Samuel 20:26 - And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David

  • 2 Samuel 21:1 - Then there was a famine in the days and David three year year after year enquired and David of And the LORD answered And the LORD It is for Saul house and for his bloody because he slew the Gibeonites

  • 2 Samuel 21:15 - had yet war Moreover the Philistines again with Israel went down and David and his servants with him and fought Moreover the Philistines waxed faint and David

  • 2 Samuel 21:18 - And it came to pass after this that there was again a battle at Gob with the Philistines slew then Sibbechai the Hushathite Saph which was of the sons of the giant

  • 2 Samuel 21:19 - And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines slew where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim a Bethlehemite the brother of Goliath the Gittite the staff of whose spear beam was like a weaver's

  • 2 Samuel 21:20 - And there was yet a battle in Gath where was a man of great stature fingers that had on every hand fingers and on every foot six six and twenty four in number and he also was born to the giant

  • 2 Samuel 22:19 - They prevented me in the day of my calamity but the LORD was my stay

  • 2 Samuel 22:24 - I was also upright before him and have kept myself from mine iniquity

  • 2 Samuel 23:11 - And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite were gathered together And the Philistines into a troop where was a piece of ground full of lentiles and the people fled from And the Philistines

  • 2 Samuel 23:19 - not unto the first three Was he not most honourable therefore he was their captain not unto the first three howbeit he attained

  • 2 Samuel 24:9 - gave up And Joab the sum of the number of the people unto the king and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand and the men valiant that drew the sword and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand and the men