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)


  • Deuteronomy 20:11 - of peace And it shall be if it make thee answer and open unto thee then it shall be that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee and they shall serve

  • Deuteronomy 20:14 - But the women and the little ones and the cattle and all that is in the city even all the spoil thereof shalt thou take unto thyself and thou shalt eat even all the spoil of thine enemies hath given which the LORD thy God

  • Deuteronomy 21:3 - And it shall be that the city which is next unto the slain man shall take even the elders And it shall be that the city an heifer which hath not been wrought with and which hath not drawn in the yoke

  • Deuteronomy 21:5 - shall come near And the priests the sons of Levi hath chosen for them the LORD thy God to minister unto him and to bless in the name for them the LORD and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke

  • Deuteronomy 21:13 - And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her and shall remain in thine house and bewail her father and her mother month a full and after that thou shalt go and she shall be thy wife

  • Deuteronomy 21:14 - And it shall be if thou have no delight in her then thou shalt let her go whither she will but thou shalt not sell but thou shalt not sell for money thou shalt not make merchandise of her because thou hast humbled

  • Deuteronomy 21:15 - If a man have two wives and another beloved and another and the hated and they have born him children beloved and the hated him children and if the firstborn be hers that was hated

  • Deuteronomy 21:16 - Then it shall be when to inherit he maketh his sons that which he hath that he may which is indeed the firstborn he maketh his sons of the beloved before he maketh his sons of the hated which is indeed the firstborn

  • Deuteronomy 21:18 - If a man son have a stubborn and rebellious him will not hearken or the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and that when they have chastened him will not hearken

  • Deuteronomy 21:22 - And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death and he be to be put to death and thou hang him on a tree

  • Deuteronomy 22:2 - be not nigh And if thy brother unto thee or if thou know him not then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house seek And if thy brother after it and thou shalt restore it to him again

  • Deuteronomy 22:5 - shall not wear that which pertaineth neither shall a man The woman put neither shall a man garment The woman are abomination unto the LORD thy God for all that do so

  • Deuteronomy 22:19 - And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver and give them unto the father of the damsel because he hath brought up name an evil upon a virgin of Israel and she shall be his wife he may not put her away all his days

  • Deuteronomy 22:20 - be true But if this thing be not found and the tokens of virginity for the damsel

  • Deuteronomy 22:23 - If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed and a man find and a man her in the city and lie

  • Deuteronomy 22:29 - with her shall give Then the man that lay father unto the damsel's fifty shekels of silver and she shall be his wife because he hath humbled her he may not put her away all his days

  • Deuteronomy 23:7 - Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite for he is thy brother Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian because thou wast a stranger in his land

  • Deuteronomy 23:10 - If there be among you any man that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night then shall he go abroad out of the camp he shall not come within out of the camp

  • Deuteronomy 23:11 - cometh on But it shall be when evening he shall wash himself with water he shall come and when the sun he shall come into the camp

  • Deuteronomy 23:12 - Thou shalt have a place also abroad the camp whither thou shalt go forth abroad