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 29:2 - Yet I will distress Ariel and there shall be heaviness and sorrow Ariel

  • Isaiah 29:4 - And thou shalt be brought down out of the ground and shalt speak out of the dust shall be low and thy speech shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit out of the ground and thy voice out of the dust and thy speech shall whisper

  • Isaiah 29:5 - dust shall be like small Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be as chaff that passeth away Moreover the multitude of the terrible ones yea it shall be at an instant suddenly

  • Isaiah 29:7 - her shall be as a dream vision of a night And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel that fight against her and her munition and that distress

  • Isaiah 29:8 - or as when dreameth It shall even be as when an hungry and behold he eateth but he awaketh is empty and his soul or as when dreameth a thirsty man and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint and his soul hath appetite so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against mount Zion

  • Isaiah 29:11 - And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book for it is sealed which men deliver to one that is learned of a book saying Read saying I cannot for it is sealed

  • Isaiah 29:13 - said Wherefore the Lord Forasmuch draw near as this people me with their mouth and with their lips do honour their heart far by the precept toward me is taught

  • Isaiah 29:15 - Woe unto them that seek deep from the LORD to hide their counsel are in the dark and their works and they say Who seeth us and who knoweth

  • Isaiah 30:3 - Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion

  • Isaiah 30:4 - were at Zoan For his princes and his ambassadors to Hanes came

  • Isaiah 30:8 - Now go write it before them in a table it in a book and note that it may be for the time to come ever for and ever

  • Isaiah 30:13 - Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall swelling out wall in a high suddenly at an instant cometh whose breaking

  • Isaiah 30:15 - For thus saith the Lord GOD the Holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would

  • Isaiah 30:20 - give And though the Lord you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction be removed into a corner thy teachers any more but thine eyes shall see thy teachers

  • Isaiah 30:23 - Then shall he give the rain of thy seed that thou shalt sow of the earth withal and bread of the increase of the earth and it shall be fat and plenteous feed shall thy cattle in that day pastures in large

  • Isaiah 30:25 - mountain And there shall be upon every high hill and upon every high rivers and streams of waters in the day slaughter of the great fall when the towers

  • Isaiah 30:26 - Moreover the light of the moon Moreover the light of the sun Moreover the light of the sun shall be sevenfold Moreover the light of seven days days bindeth up that the LORD the breach of his people the stroke of their wound and healeth

  • Isaiah 30:29 - Ye shall have a song as in the night is kept solemnity and gladness of heart as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD to the mighty One of Israel

  • Isaiah 30:32 - And in every place shall pass staff where the grounded shall lay which the LORD upon him it shall be with tabrets and harps and in battles of shaking will he fight

  • Isaiah 31:8 - fall Then shall the Assyrian and the sword not of a mighty man and the sword not of a mean man shall devour him but he shall flee from and the sword and his young men shall be discomfited