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)


  • Isaiah 22:21 - And I will clothe him with thy robe him with thy girdle and strengthen thy government and I will commit into his hand and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah

  • Isaiah 22:23 - And I will fasten him as a nail place in a sure throne and he shall be for a glorious house to his father's

  • Isaiah 23:3 - waters And by great the seed of Sihor the harvest of the river is her revenue and she is a mart of nations

  • Isaiah 23:13 - Behold the land of the Chaldeans this people was not till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness they set up the towers thereof they raised up the palaces thereof and he brought it to ruin

  • Isaiah 23:15 - And it shall come to pass in that day shall be forgotten shall Tyre of seventy years And it shall come to pass in that day king of one after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot

  • Isaiah 23:17 - And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years will visit that the LORD Tyre and she shall turn to her hire and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth

  • Isaiah 23:18 - And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness the LORD it shall not be treasured nor laid up shall be for them that dwell before the LORD And her merchandise to eat sufficiently clothing and for durable

  • Isaiah 24:2 - And it shall be as with the people so with the priest as with the servant so with his master as with the maid so with her mistress as with the buyer so with the seller as with the lender as with the lender as with the taker of usury so with the giver of usury

  • Isaiah 24:13 - When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree and as the gleaning grapes is done when the vintage

  • Isaiah 24:18 - And it shall come to pass that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit and he that cometh up out of the midst into the pit shall be taken in the snare for the windows from on high are open do shake and the foundations of the earth

  • Isaiah 24:21 - And it shall come to pass in that day shall punish that the LORD the host of the high ones of the high ones and the kings of the earth of the earth

  • Isaiah 25:4 - For thou hast been a strength to the poor For thou hast been a strength to the needy in his distress a refuge from the storm a shadow from the heat when the blast of the terrible ones from the storm against the wall

  • Isaiah 26:17 - Like as a woman with child that draweth near the time of her delivery is in pain and crieth out in her pangs so have we been in thy sight O LORD

  • Isaiah 27:12 - And it shall come to pass in that day shall beat off that the LORD from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt and ye shall be gathered by one by one O ye children of Israel

  • Isaiah 27:13 - And it shall come to pass in that day shall be blown trumpet that the great and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt and shall worship the LORD mount in the holy at Jerusalem

  • Isaiah 28:4 - flower shall be a fading And the glorious beauty which is on the head valley of the fat and as the hasty fruit before the summer upon it seeth upon it seeth while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up

  • Isaiah 28:5 - In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his people

  • Isaiah 28:13 - But the word of the LORD precept precept precept precept line line line line and there a little and there a little and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken

  • Isaiah 28:18 - shall be disannulled And your covenant with death and your agreement with hell shall not stand scourge when the overflowing shall pass through then ye shall be trodden down

  • Isaiah 28:19 - From the time shall it pass over it shall take by morning by morning shall it pass over by day and by night and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report