הָיָה

ha.yah

Hebrew H1961 Verb 3,561 occurrences in 3,132 verses
הָיָה to be

1. to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out

a. (Qal)

1. ---

a. to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass

b. to come about, come to pass

2. to come into being, become

a. to arise, appear, come

b. to become

1. to become

2. to become like

3. to be instituted, be established

3. to be

a. to exist, be in existence

b. to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)

c. to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)

d. to accompany, be with

b. (Niphal)

1. to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about

2. to be done, be finished, be gone

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

Translation

Translated as (BSB)

Forms

By book

Old Testament

New Testament

Concordance 3,132 verses

  1. Joshua 6:27 וַיְהִ֥יוַיְהִ֥י

    So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.

  2. Joshua 7:5 וַיְהִ֥י

    And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

  3. Joshua 7:12 הָי֖וּלִֽהְי֣וֹת

    This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.

  4. Joshua 7:14 וְהָיָ֡ה

    In the morning you must present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe that the LORD selects shall come forward clan by clan, and the clan that the LORD selects shall come forward family by family, and the family that the LORD selects shall come forward man by man.

  5. Joshua 7:15 וְהָיָה֙

    The one who is caught with the things devoted to destruction must be burned, along with all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD and committed an outrage in Israel.’”

  6. Joshua 8:4 וִהְיִיתֶ֥ם

    with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.

  7. Joshua 8:5 וְהָיָ֗ה

    Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.

  8. Joshua 8:8 וְהָיָ֞ה

    And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”

  9. Joshua 8:14 וַיְהִ֞י

    When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.

  10. Joshua 8:20 הָיָ֨ה

    When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

  11. Joshua 8:22 וַיִּֽהְי֤וּ

    Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained.

  12. Joshua 8:24 וַיְהִ֣י

    When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.

  13. Joshua 8:25 וַיְהִי֩

    A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

  14. Joshua 8:35 הָיָ֣ה

    There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua failed to read before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who lived among them.

  15. Joshua 9:1 וַיְהִ֣י

    Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—

  16. Joshua 9:5 הָיָ֥ה

    They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.

  17. Joshua 9:12 וְהָיָ֖ה

    This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But take a look, it is now dry and moldy.

  18. Joshua 9:16 וַיְהִ֗י

    Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.

  19. Joshua 9:20 יִֽהְיֶ֤ה

    This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

  20. Joshua 9:21 וַ֠יִּֽהְיוּ

    They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.

  21. Joshua 10:1 וַיְהִי֩וַיִּֽהְי֖וּ

    Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction —doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.

  22. Joshua 10:11 וַיְהִ֞י

    As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

  23. Joshua 10:14 הָיָ֜ה

    There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD fought for Israel.

  24. Joshua 10:20 וַיְהִי֩

    So Joshua and the Israelites continued to inflict a terrible slaughter until they had finished them off, and the remaining survivors retreated to the fortified cities.

  25. Joshua 10:24 וַ֠יְהִי

    When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.

  26. Joshua 10:26 וַיִּֽהְי֛וּ

    After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.

  27. Joshua 10:27 וַיְהִ֞י

    At sunset Joshua ordered that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave in which they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.

  28. Joshua 11:1 וַיְהִ֕י

    Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;

  29. Joshua 11:19 הָיְתָ֣ה

    No city made peace with the Israelites except the Hivites living in Gibeon; all others were taken in battle.

  30. Joshua 11:20 הָיְתָ֡ההֱיוֹת־

    For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts to engage Israel in battle, so that they would be set apart for destruction and would receive no mercy, being annihilated as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  31. Joshua 13:16 וַיְהִ֨י

    The territory from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, to the whole plateau beyond Medeba,

  32. Joshua 13:23 וַיְהִ֗י

    And the border of the Reubenites was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the clans of the Reubenites, including the cities and villages.

  33. Joshua 13:25 וַיְהִ֤י

    The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;

  34. Joshua 13:29 וַיְהִ֗י

    This is what Moses had given to the clans of the half-tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh:

  35. Joshua 13:30 וַיְהִ֣י

    The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;

  36. Joshua 14:4 הָי֧וּ

    The descendants of Joseph became two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion of the land was given to the Levites, except for cities in which to live, along with pasturelands for their flocks and herds.

  37. Joshua 14:9 תִֽהְיֶ֧ה

    On that day Moses swore to me, saying, ‘Surely the land on which you have set foot will be an inheritance to you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’

  38. Joshua 14:14 הָיְתָֽה־

    Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

  39. Joshua 15:1 וַיְהִ֣י

    Now the allotment for the clans of the tribe of Judah extended to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin at the extreme southern boundary:

  40. Joshua 15:2 וַיְהִ֤י

    Their southern border started at the bay on the southern tip of the Salt Sea,

  41. Joshua 15:4 וְהָיָהיִהְיֶ֥ה

    It proceeded to Azmon, joined the Brook of Egypt, and ended at the Sea. This was their southern border.

  42. Joshua 15:7 וְהָי֥וּ

    Then the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, turning north to Gilgal, which faces the Ascent of Adummim south of the ravine. It continued along the waters of En-shemesh and came out at En-rogel.

  43. Joshua 15:11 וְהָי֛וּ

    Then it went out to the northern slope of Ekron, curved toward Shikkeron, proceeded to Mount Baalah, went on to Jabneel, and ended at the Sea.

  44. Joshua 15:18 וַיְהִ֣י

    One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

  45. Joshua 15:21 וַיִּֽהְי֣וּ

    These were the southernmost cities of the tribe of Judah in the Negev toward the border of Edom: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

  46. Joshua 16:3 וְהָי֥וּ

    Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.

  47. Joshua 16:5 וַיְהִ֛יוַיְהִ֞י

    This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans: The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar in the east to Upper Beth-horon

  48. Joshua 16:8 וְהָי֥וּ

    From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook of Kanah and ended at the Sea. This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Ephraim,

  49. Joshua 16:10 וַיְהִ֖י

    But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.

  50. Joshua 17:1 וַיְהִ֤יהָיָה֙וַֽיְהִי־

    Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.

What do you think?

Help us improve Bible Atlas by letting us know about any issues or missing features. We read every message, and we appreciate your time!