הָיָה
ha.yah
1. to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out
a. (Qal)
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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)
Translated as (BSB)
Forms
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Old Testament
New Testament
Concordance 3,132 verses
- 2 Samuel 15:4 יִהְיֶה־
And he would add, “If only someone would appoint me judge in the land, then everyone with a grievance or dispute could come to me, and I would give him justice.”
- 2 Samuel 15:5 וְהָיָה֙
Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.
- 2 Samuel 15:7 וַיְהִ֕י
After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD.
- 2 Samuel 15:12 וַיְהִ֤י
While Absalom was offering the sacrifices, he sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, to come from his hometown of Giloh. So the conspiracy gained strength, and Absalom’s following kept increasing.
- 2 Samuel 15:13 הָיָ֛ה
Then a messenger came to David and reported, “The hearts of the men of Israel are with Absalom.”
- 2 Samuel 15:14 תִֽהְיֶה־
And David said to all the servants with him in Jerusalem, “Arise and let us flee, or we will not escape from Absalom! We must leave quickly, or he will soon overtake us, heap disaster on us, and put the city to the sword.”
- 2 Samuel 15:21 יִֽהְיֶה־יִהְיֶ֥ה
But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”
- 2 Samuel 15:32 וַיְהִ֤י
When David came to the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head.
- 2 Samuel 15:33 וְהָיִ֥תָ
David said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.
- 2 Samuel 15:34 אֶֽהְיֶ֔ה
But you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me if you return to the city and say to Absalom: ‘I will be your servant, my king; in the past I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant.’
- 2 Samuel 15:35 וְהָיָ֗ה
Will not Zadok and Abiathar the priests be there with you? Report to them everything you hear from the king’s palace.
- 2 Samuel 16:16 וַיְהִ֗י
And David’s friend Hushai the Archite went to Absalom and said to him, “Long live the king! Long live the king!”
- 2 Samuel 16:18 אֶהְיֶ֖ה
“Not at all,” Hushai answered. “For the one chosen by the LORD, by the people, and by all the men of Israel—his I will be, and with him I will remain.
- 2 Samuel 16:19 אֶהְיֶ֥ה
Furthermore, whom should I serve if not the son? As I served in your father’s presence, so also I will serve in yours.”
- 2 Samuel 17:3 יִהְיֶ֥ה
and bring all the people back to you as a bride returning to her husband. You seek the life of only one man; then all the people will be at peace.”
- 2 Samuel 17:9 וְהָיָ֗ההָֽיְתָה֙
Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’
- 2 Samuel 17:21 וַיְהִ֣י׀
After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”
- 2 Samuel 17:27 וַיְהִ֕י
When David came to Mahanaim, he was met by Shobi son of Nahash from Rabbah of the Ammonites, Machir son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim.
- 2 Samuel 18:3 תִֽהְיֶה־
But the people pleaded, “You must not go out! For if we have to flee, they will pay no attention to us. Even if half of us die, they will not care; but you are worth ten thousand of us. It is better for now if you support us from the city.”
- 2 Samuel 18:6 וַתְּהִ֥י
So David’s army marched into the field to engage Israel in the battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.
- 2 Samuel 18:7 וַתְּהִי־
There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
- 2 Samuel 18:8 וַתְּהִי־
The battle spread over the whole countryside, and that day the forest devoured more people than the sword.
- 2 Samuel 18:22 וִ֣יהִי
Ahimaaz son of Zadok, however, persisted and said to Joab, “Regardless of whatever may happen, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” “My son,” Joab replied, “why do you want to run, since you will not receive a reward?”
- 2 Samuel 18:23 וִיהִי־
“No matter what, I want to run!” he replied. “Then run!” Joab told him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.
- 2 Samuel 18:32 יִהְי֤וּ
The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And the Cushite replied, “May what has become of the young man happen to the enemies of my lord the king and to all who rise up against you to harm you.”
- 2 Samuel 19:2 וַתְּהִ֨י
And that day’s victory was turned into mourning for all the people, because on that day they were told, “The king is grieving over his son.”
- 2 Samuel 19:9 וַיְהִ֤י
And all the people throughout the tribes of Israel were arguing, “The king rescued us from the hand of our enemies and delivered us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled the land because of Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 19:11 תִֽהְיוּ֙
Then King David sent this message to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests: “Say to the elders of Judah, ‘Why should you be the last to restore the king to his palace, since the talk of all Israel has reached the king at his quarters?
- 2 Samuel 19:12 תִהְי֛וּ
You are my brothers, my own flesh and blood. So why should you be the last to restore the king?’
- 2 Samuel 19:13 תִּהְיֶ֧ה
And say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my flesh and blood? May God punish me, and ever so severely, if from this time you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
- 2 Samuel 19:22 תִֽהְיוּ־
And David replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, what have I to do with you, that you should be my adversaries today? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? Am I not indeed aware that today I am king over Israel?”
- 2 Samuel 19:25 וַיְהִ֛י
And he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, who asked him, “Mephibosheth, why did you not go with me?”
- 2 Samuel 19:28 הָיָ֜ה
For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”
- 2 Samuel 19:35 יִֽהְיֶ֨ה
I am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
- 2 Samuel 19:43 הָיָ֨ה
“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah pressed even harder than the men of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 20:3 וַתִּהְיֶ֧ינָה
When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace, and he placed them in a house under guard. He provided for them, but he no longer slept with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.
- 2 Samuel 20:26 הָיָ֥ה
and Ira the Jairite was David’s priest.
- 2 Samuel 21:1 וַיְהִ֣י
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
- 2 Samuel 21:15 וַתְּהִי־
Once again the Philistines waged war against Israel, and David and his servants went down and fought against the Philistines; but David became exhausted.
- 2 Samuel 21:18 וַֽיְהִי֙וַתְּהִי־
Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha.
- 2 Samuel 21:19 וַתְּהִי־
Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
- 2 Samuel 21:20 וַתְּהִי־וַיְהִ֣י׀
And there was still another battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
- 2 Samuel 22:19 וַיְהִ֧י
They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the LORD was my support.
- 2 Samuel 22:24 וָאֶהְיֶ֥ה
And I have been blameless before Him and kept myself from iniquity.
- 2 Samuel 23:11 וַתְּהִי־
And after him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. When the Philistines had banded together near a field full of lentils, Israel’s troops fled from them.
- 2 Samuel 23:19 וַיְהִ֥י
Was he not more honored than the Three? And he became their commander, even though he was not included among the Three.
- 2 Samuel 24:9 וַתְּהִ֣י
And Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
- 2 Samuel 24:11 הָיָה֙
When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:
- 2 Samuel 24:13 הֱ֠יוֹת
So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
- 2 Samuel 24:16 הָיָ֔ה
But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.