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)


  • Genesis 1:19 - And the evening and the morning day were the fourth

  • Genesis 1:23 - And the evening and the morning day were the fifth

  • Genesis 1:24 - said And God bring forth Let the earth creature and beast after his kind cattle and creeping thing and beast Let the earth after his kind

  • Genesis 1:29 - said And God Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in the which is the fruit and every tree bearing seed to you it shall be for meat

  • Genesis 1:30 - And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that creepeth of the earth And to every beast I have given every green herb for meat

  • Genesis 1:31 - saw And God every thing that he had made good and behold it was very And the evening and the morning day were the sixth

  • Genesis 2:5 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for had not caused it to rain the LORD God it was in the earth a man and there was not to till the ground

  • Genesis 2:7 - formed And the LORD God and man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath became a living and man soul became a living

  • Genesis 2:10 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from thence it was parted and became into four heads

  • Genesis 2:18 - said And the LORD God It is not good should be that the man alone I will make him an help meet

  • Genesis 2:24 - Therefore leave shall a man his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife flesh and they shall be one

  • Genesis 2:25 - And they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed

  • Genesis 3:1 - Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field had made which the LORD God And he said unto the woman Yea And he said God Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden

  • Genesis 3:5 - doth know For God that in the day ye eat shall be opened thereof then your eyes For God doth know good and evil

  • Genesis 3:20 - called And Adam name his wife's Eve because she was the mother of all living

  • Genesis 3:22 - said And the LORD God Behold the man is become as one of us to know good and evil and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever

  • Genesis 4:2 - And she again bare his brother Abel Abel was a keeper of sheep but Cain was a tiller of the ground

  • Genesis 4:3 - And in process of time brought it came to pass that Cain of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD

  • Genesis 4:8 - talked And Cain against Abel his brother and it came to pass when they were in the field rose up And Cain against Abel his brother and slew him

  • Genesis 4:12 - When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth