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 10:8 - And Cush begat Nimrod he began to be a mighty one in the earth

  • Genesis 10:9 - He was a mighty hunter before the LORD wherefore it is said Even as Nimrod He was a mighty hunter before the LORD

  • Genesis 10:10 - And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar

  • Genesis 10:19 - And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon as thou comest to Gerar unto Gaza as thou comest unto Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboim even unto Lasha

  • Genesis 10:30 - And their dwelling was from Mesha as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east

  • Genesis 11:1 - And the whole earth language and of one speech and of one

  • Genesis 11:2 - And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt

  • Genesis 11:3 - And they said one to another Go to let us make And they had brick and burn them throughly had And they had brick for stone and slime had they for morter

  • Genesis 11:30 - But Sarai was barren she had no child

  • Genesis 11:32 - And the days and Terah and five years were two hundred years died and Terah in Haran

  • Genesis 12:2 - And I will make of thee nation a great and I will bless great thy name and thou shalt be a blessing

  • Genesis 12:10 - And there was a famine in the land went down and Abram into Egypt to sojourn was grievous And there was a famine in the land

  • Genesis 12:11 - And it came to pass when he was come near to enter into Egypt that he said unto Sarai his wife Behold now I know his wife that thou art a fair to look upon

  • Genesis 12:12 - shall see Therefore it shall come to pass when the Egyptians thee that they shall say This is his wife and they will kill me but they will save thee alive

  • Genesis 12:14 - was come And it came to pass that when Abram into Egypt beheld the Egyptians the woman fair that she was very

  • Genesis 12:16 - Abram And he entreated for her sake and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and menservants and maidservants and she asses and camels

  • Genesis 13:3 - on his journeys from the south between Bethel unto the place had been where his tent at the beginning between Bethel and Hai

  • Genesis 13:5 - And Lot also which went with Abram had flocks and herds and tents

  • Genesis 13:6 - was not able to bear And the land not dwell together for their substance was great so that they could not dwell together

  • Genesis 13:7 - And there was a strife and the herdmen cattle of Abram's and the herdmen cattle of Lot's and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land