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 32:2 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind and a covert from the tempest as rivers of water in a dry place as the shadow rock of a great land in a weary

  • Isaiah 32:14 - Because the palaces shall be forsaken the multitude of the city shall be left the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever a joy of wild asses a pasture of flocks

  • Isaiah 32:15 - be poured Until the spirit upon us from on high and the wilderness and the fruitful field and the fruitful field for a forest be counted

  • Isaiah 32:17 - And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever

  • Isaiah 33:2 - O LORD be gracious unto us we have waited for thee be thou their arm every morning our salvation also in the time of trouble

  • Isaiah 33:6 - shall be the stability of thy times and strength of salvation And wisdom and knowledge the fear of the LORD is his treasure

  • Isaiah 33:9 - mourneth and languisheth The earth is ashamed Lebanon and hewn down Sharon is like a wilderness shake off and Bashan and Carmel

  • Isaiah 33:12 - And the people shall be as the burnings of lime as thorns cut up in the fire shall they be burned

  • Isaiah 34:9 - thereof shall be turned And the streams into pitch and the dust thereof into brimstone and the land into pitch thereof shall become burning

  • Isaiah 34:12 - the nobles thereof to the kingdom They shall call but none shall be there and all her princes shall be nothing

  • Isaiah 34:13 - shall come up in her palaces And thorns nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof and it shall be an habitation of dragons and a court for owls

  • Isaiah 35:7 - And the parched ground shall become a pool and the thirsty land springs of water in the habitation of dragons where each lay shall be grass with reeds and rushes

  • Isaiah 35:8 - And an highway The way The way of holiness and it shall be called shall not pass over the unclean it but it shall be for those the wayfaring men The way though fools shall not err

  • Isaiah 35:9 - No lion shall be there nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon it shall not be found shall walk there but the redeemed

  • Isaiah 36:1 - Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year king Hezekiah came up that Sennacherib king of Assyria cities of Judah against all the defenced and took

  • Isaiah 37:1 - heard And it came to pass when king Hezekiah it that he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD

  • Isaiah 37:26 - Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done times it and of ancient that I have formed it now have I brought it to pass that thou shouldest be to lay waste heaps into ruinous cities defenced

  • Isaiah 37:27 - Therefore their inhabitants were of small power they were dismayed and confounded they were as the grass of the field and as the green herb as the grass on the housetops and as corn blasted before it be grown up

  • Isaiah 37:38 - And it came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god that Adrammelech and Sharezer his son smote him with the sword and they escaped into the land of Armenia reigned and Esarhaddon his son

  • Isaiah 38:4 - Then came the word of the LORD to Isaiah saying