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)


  • Ezekiel 16:8 - Now when I passed by thee and looked upon thee behold thy time upon thee behold thy time of love and I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness yea I sware unto thee and entered into a covenant with thee saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 16:15 - But thou didst trust in thine own beauty and playedst the harlot because of thy renown and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by

  • Ezekiel 16:16 - thou didst take And of thy garments and deckedst thy high places with divers colours and playedst the harlot thereupon the like things shall not come

  • Ezekiel 16:19 - My meat also which I gave thee fine flour and oil and honey wherewith I fed also which I gave it before savour them for a sweet and thus it was saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 16:22 - And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth when thou wast naked and bare and wast polluted in thy blood

  • Ezekiel 16:23 - And it came to pass after all thy wickedness woe woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 16:31 - In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way thine high place and makest in every street and hast not been as an harlot in that thou scornest hire

  • Ezekiel 16:34 - unto thee therefore thou art And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms and in that thou givest a reward a reward and in that thou givest unto thee therefore thou art And the contrary

  • Ezekiel 16:49 - Behold this was the iniquity Sodom of thy sister pride fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters the hand of the poor and needy neither did she strengthen

  • Ezekiel 16:56 - Sodom For thy sister was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride

  • Ezekiel 16:63 - That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 17:1 - And the word of the LORD came unto me saying

  • Ezekiel 17:6 - And it grew thereof were under him so it became a vine and became a spreading of low stature turned whose branches toward him and the roots thereof were under him so it became a vine and brought forth branches and shot forth sprigs

  • Ezekiel 17:7 - eagle There was also another great great wings and many feathers and behold this vine did bend her roots her branches toward him and shot forth toward him that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation

  • Ezekiel 17:8 - soil in a good waters by great It was planted that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit vine that it might be a goodly

  • Ezekiel 17:11 - Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying

  • Ezekiel 17:14 - That the kingdom might be base that it might not lift itself up but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand

  • Ezekiel 17:23 - In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit cedar and be a goodly and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing in the shadow of the branches and under it shall dwell

  • Ezekiel 18:1 - The word of the LORD came unto me again saying

  • Ezekiel 18:3 - As I live saith the Lord GOD ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel