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 6:21 - And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten and thou shalt gather it to thee and it shall be for food

  • Genesis 7:6 - And Noah old was six hundred years when the flood of waters was upon the earth

  • Genesis 7:10 - And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood were upon the earth

  • Genesis 7:12 - And the rain was upon the earth and forty days and forty nights

  • Genesis 7:17 - And the flood was forty days above the earth increased and the waters and bare up the ark and it was lift up above the earth

  • Genesis 8:5 - And the waters continually decreased until day of the month in the tenth in the tenth month on the first day of the month seen were the tops of the mountains

  • Genesis 8:6 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days opened that Noah the window of the ark which he had made

  • Genesis 8:13 - month the first And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year in the first month the first day of the month was dry the waters from off the earth removed and Noah the covering of the ark and looked and behold the face of the ground

  • Genesis 9:2 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every fowl of the air upon all that moveth upon the earth and upon all the fishes of the sea into your hand are they delivered

  • Genesis 9:3 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you even as the green herb have I given

  • Genesis 9:11 - And I will establish my covenant be cut off with you neither shall all flesh any more by the waters neither shall there any more be a flood neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth

  • Genesis 9:13 - my bow I do set in the cloud and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth

  • Genesis 9:14 - And it shall come to pass when I bring a cloud over the earth shall be seen that the bow a cloud

  • Genesis 9:15 - And I will remember my covenant creature which is between me and you and every living all flesh shall no more and the waters become a flood to destroy all flesh

  • Genesis 9:16 - And the bow shall be in the cloud and I will look upon it that I may remember covenant the everlasting and God and creature every living of all flesh that is upon the earth

  • Genesis 9:18 - And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth and Ham is the father of Canaan

  • Genesis 9:25 - And he said Cursed be Canaan a servant a servant shall he be unto his brethren

  • Genesis 9:26 - And he said Blessed be the LORD God of Shem shall be and Canaan his servant

  • Genesis 9:27 - shall enlarge God Japheth and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem and Canaan shall be his servant

  • Genesis 9:29 - And all the days of Noah were nine hundred years and fifty years and he died