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)

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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)

Translation

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Concordance 3,132 verses

Genesis 17:4 וְהָיִ֕יתָ

“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.
Genesis 17:5 וְהָיָ֤ה

No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
Genesis 17:7 לִהְי֤וֹת

I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
Genesis 17:8 וְהָיִ֥יתִי

And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Genesis 17:11 וְהָיָה֙

You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
Genesis 17:13 וְהָיְתָ֧ה

Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
Genesis 17:16 וְהָֽיְתָ֣היִהְיֽוּ׃

And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”
Genesis 18:11 לִהְי֣וֹת

And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
Genesis 18:12 הָֽיְתָה־

So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
Genesis 18:18 הָי֧וֹיִֽהְיֶ֛ה

Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.
Genesis 18:25 וְהָיָ֥ה

Far be it from You to do such a thing—to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?”
Genesis 19:14 וַיְהִ֥י

So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
Genesis 19:17 וַיְהִי֩

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
Genesis 19:26 וַתְּהִ֖י

But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:29 וַיְהִ֗י

So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
Genesis 19:34 וַֽיְהִי֙

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
Genesis 20:12 וַתְּהִי־

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.
Genesis 20:13 וַיְהִ֞י

So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
Genesis 21:20 וַיְהִ֧יוַיְהִ֖י

And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.
Genesis 21:22 וַֽיְהִי֙

At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
Genesis 21:30 תִּֽהְיֶה־

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
Genesis 22:1 וַיְהִ֗י

Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
Genesis 22:20 וַיְהִ֗י

Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
Genesis 23:1 וַיִּהְיוּ֙

Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
Genesis 24:14 וְהָיָ֣ה

Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
Genesis 24:15 וַֽיְהִי־

Before the servant had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
Genesis 24:22 וַיְהִ֗י

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.
Genesis 24:30 וַיְהִ֣י׀

As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
Genesis 24:41 וְהָיִ֥יתָ

And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
Genesis 24:43 וְהָיָ֤ה

Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
Genesis 24:51 וּתְהִ֤י

Rebekah is here before you. Take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, just as the LORD has decreed.”
Genesis 24:52 וַיְהִ֕י

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.
Genesis 24:60 הֲיִ֖י

And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
Genesis 24:67 וַתְּהִי־

And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
Genesis 25:3 הָי֛וּ

Jokshan was the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were the Asshurites, the Letushites, and the Leummites.
Genesis 25:11 וַיְהִ֗י

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
Genesis 25:20 וַיְהִ֤י

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Genesis 25:27 וַיְהִ֣י

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.
Genesis 26:1 וַיְהִ֤יהָיָ֖ה

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
Genesis 26:3 וְאֶֽהְיֶ֥ה

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
Genesis 26:8 וַיְהִ֗י

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Genesis 26:14 וַֽיְהִי־

He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26:28 הָיָ֣התְּהִ֨י

“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
Genesis 26:32 וַיְהִ֣י׀

On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
Genesis 26:34 וַיְהִ֤י

When Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26:35 וַתִּהְיֶ֖יןָ

And they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.
Genesis 27:1 וַיְהִי֙

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
Genesis 27:12 וְהָיִ֥יתִי

What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”
Genesis 27:23 הָי֣וּ

Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
Genesis 27:30 וַיְהִ֗יוַיְהִ֗י

As soon as Isaac had finished blessing him and Jacob had left his father’s presence, his brother Esau returned from the hunt.