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));
Genesis 31:3 - said And the LORD unto Jacob Return unto the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred
Genesis 31:5 - And said unto them I see countenance of my father that it is not toward me as before but the God of my father hath been
Genesis 31:8 - If he said speckled shall be thy hire bare all the cattle speckled If he said ringstraked shall be thy hire bare all the cattle ringstraked
Genesis 31:10 - And it came to pass at the time conceived that the cattle that I lifted up mine eyes and saw in a dream and behold the rams which leaped that the cattle were ringstraked speckled and grisled
Genesis 31:40 - Thus I was in the day consumed the drought me and the frost by night departed and my sleep from mine eyes
Genesis 31:42 - Except God of my father God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac now empty had been with me surely thou hadst sent me away mine affliction and the labour of my hands hath seen God and rebuked thee yesternight
Genesis 31:44 - let us make a covenant I and thou and let it be for a witness
Genesis 32:5 - And I have oxen and asses flocks and menservants and womenservants and I have sent to tell my lord that I may find grace in thy sight
Genesis 32:8 - And said come If Esau company to the one and smite it company which is left shall escape
Genesis 32:10 - I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant for with my staff I passed over this Jordan and now I am become two bands
Genesis 33:9 - said And Esau I have enough my brother
Genesis 34:5 - And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter now his sons were with his cattle in the field held his peace And Jacob until they were come
Genesis 34:10 - And ye shall dwell with us and the land shall be before you And ye shall dwell and trade ye therein and get you possessions
Genesis 34:15 - But in this will we consent of you be circumcised unto you If ye will be as we be that every male
Genesis 34:16 - Then will we give our daughters our daughters unto you and we will take to us and we will dwell people with you and we will become one
Genesis 34:22 - Only herein consent unto us for to dwell people with us to be one among us be circumcised if every male among us be circumcised
Genesis 34:25 - day And it came to pass on the third when they were sore took that two of the sons of Jacob Simeon and Levi brethren Dinah's each man his sword and came upon the city boldly and slew all the males
Genesis 35:3 - And let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went
Genesis 35:5 - And they journeyed and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob
Genesis 35:10 - said And God his name any more Jacob and he called his name any more Jacob Israel his name and he called his name Israel