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)


  • Hosea 13:7 - Therefore I will be unto them as a lion as a leopard by the way will I observe

  • Hosea 14:5 - I will be as the dew unto Israel he shall grow as the lily and cast forth his roots as Lebanon

  • Hosea 14:6 - His branches shall be as the olive tree and his beauty and his smell as Lebanon

  • Isaiah 1:9 - Except the LORD of hosts had left remnant unto us a very small as Sodom we should have been unto Gomorrah and we should have been like

  • Isaiah 1:14 - Your new moons and your appointed feasts hateth my soul they are a trouble unto me I am weary to bear

  • Isaiah 1:18 - and let us reason together saith the LORD though your sins be as scarlet as snow they shall be as white though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool

  • Isaiah 1:21 - become an harlot city How is the faithful it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers

  • Isaiah 1:22 - Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixed with water

  • Isaiah 1:30 - For ye shall be as an oak fadeth whose leaf and as a garden that hath no water

  • Isaiah 1:31 - And the strong shall be as tow and the maker of it as a spark burn and they shall both together and none shall quench

  • Isaiah 2:2 - And it shall come to pass in the last days shall be established of the mountains house of the LORD'S in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills shall flow and all nations

  • Isaiah 3:6 - shall take hold When a man of his brother of the house of his father saying Thou hast clothing be thou our ruler and let this ruin be under thy hand

  • Isaiah 3:7 - shall he swear In that day saying I will not be an healer for in my house is neither bread nor clothing make me not a ruler of the people

  • Isaiah 3:24 - And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of well set hair baldness and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty

  • Isaiah 4:2 - In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel

  • Isaiah 4:3 - And it shall come to pass that he that is left in Zion and he that remaineth in Jerusalem holy shall be called even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem

  • Isaiah 4:6 - And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat and for a place of refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain

  • Isaiah 5:1 - Now will I sing My wellbeloved a song of my beloved hath a vineyard hath a vineyard My wellbeloved hill in a very fruitful

  • Isaiah 5:5 - And now go to I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard I will take away the hedge thereof and it shall be eaten up and break down the wall thereof and it shall be trodden down

  • Isaiah 5:9 - In mine ears said the LORD of hosts Of a truth houses many shall be desolate even great and fair without inhabitant