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)


  • Exodus 6:7 - And I will take you to me for a people and I will be to you a God and ye shall know that I am the LORD and I will be to you a God which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians

  • Exodus 6:28 - And it came to pass on the day spake when the LORD unto Moses in the land of Egypt

  • Exodus 7:1 - said And the LORD unto Moses See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet

  • Exodus 7:9 - shall speak Pharaoh for you then thou shalt say Shew a miracle for you then thou shalt say unto Aaron Take thy rod and cast it before Pharaoh and it shall become a serpent

  • Exodus 7:10 - went in And Moses and Aaron Pharaoh and they did had commanded so as the LORD cast down and Aaron his rod and before Pharaoh and before his servants and it became a serpent

  • Exodus 7:12 - For they cast down every man his rod and they became serpents swallowed up his rod but Aaron's his rod

  • Exodus 7:19 - Say And the LORD unto Moses Say unto Aaron Take thy rod and stretch out thine hand of water of Egypt upon their streams upon their rivers and upon their ponds and upon all their pools of water and that there may be blood and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone

  • Exodus 7:21 - And the fish and the river died stank and the river could and the Egyptians not drink of the water and the river and there was blood throughout all the land and the Egyptians

  • Exodus 8:15 - saw But when Pharaoh that there was respite he hardened his heart and hearkened had said not unto them as the LORD

  • Exodus 8:16 - Say And the LORD unto Moses Say unto Aaron Stretch out thy rod and smite the dust of the land that it may become lice of the land of Egypt

  • Exodus 8:17 - And they did stretched out so for Aaron his hand with his rod and smote all the dust of the earth and it became lice in man and in beast all the dust of the earth and it became lice of the earth of Egypt

  • Exodus 8:18 - did And the magicians so with their enchantments to bring forth lice but they could lice upon man and upon beast

  • Exodus 8:22 - And I will sever in that day of the earth of Goshen in which my people dwell that no of flies shall be swarms there to the end thou mayest know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth

  • Exodus 8:23 - And I will put a division and thy people and thy people to morrow shall this sign

  • Exodus 9:3 - Behold the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field upon the horses upon the asses upon the camels upon the oxen and upon the sheep murrain grievous there shall be a very

  • Exodus 9:9 - And it shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt upon man and upon beast and shall be a boil breaking forth with blains in all the land of Egypt

  • Exodus 9:10 - And they took ashes of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh sprinkled and Moses it up toward heaven and it became a boil with blains breaking forth upon man and upon beast

  • Exodus 9:11 - could And the magicians not stand because Moses because for the boil for the boil And the magicians and upon all the Egyptians

  • Exodus 9:18 - I will cause it to rain about this time Behold to morrow hail grievous a very such as hath not been in Egypt the foundation

  • Exodus 9:22 - said And the LORD unto Moses Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt upon man and upon beast and upon every herb of the field in all the land of Egypt