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 4:14 - Behold thou hast driven me out this day and from from the face of the earth from the face shall I be hid and it shall come to pass and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me

  • Genesis 4:17 - knew And Cain his wife and she conceived and bare Enoch and he builded a city and called after the name a city after the name of his son Enoch

  • Genesis 4:20 - bare And Adah Jabal he was the father of such as dwell in tents and of such as have cattle

  • Genesis 4:21 - name And his brother's was Jubal he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ

  • Genesis 5:4 - And the days of Adam after and he begat Seth were eight hundred years and he begat sons and daughters

  • Genesis 5:5 - And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred years and thirty years and he died

  • Genesis 5:8 - And all the days of Seth and twelve years were nine hundred years and he died

  • Genesis 5:11 - And all the days of Enos and five years were nine hundred years and he died

  • Genesis 5:14 - And all the days of Cainan and ten years were nine hundred years and he died

  • Genesis 5:17 - And all the days of Mahalaleel and five ninety years were eight hundred years and he died

  • Genesis 5:20 - And all the days of Jared and two sixty years were nine hundred years and he died

  • Genesis 5:23 - And all the days of Enoch and five sixty years were three hundred years

  • Genesis 5:27 - And all the days of Methuselah and nine sixty years and nine hundred years and he died

  • Genesis 5:31 - And all the days of Lamech and seven seventy years and seven hundred years and he died

  • Genesis 5:32 - And Noah old was five hundred years begat And Noah Shem Ham and Japheth

  • Genesis 6:1 - began And it came to pass when men to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born

  • Genesis 6:3 - said And the LORD strive My spirit with man shall not always for that he also is flesh yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years

  • Genesis 6:4 - There were giants in the earth in those days children to them the same and also after that when came in the sons of God unto the daughters of men and they bare children to them the same became mighty men when which were of old of renown

  • Genesis 6:9 - These are the generations Noah Noah was a just and perfect in his generations with God walked Noah

  • Genesis 6:19 - And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee they shall be male and female