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

Translated as (BSB)

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Concordance 3,132 verses

2 Kings 18:9 וַֽיְהִ֞י

In the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Shalmaneser king of Assyria marched against Samaria and besieged it.
2 Kings 19:1 וַיְהִ֗י

On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD.
2 Kings 19:25 וּתְהִ֗י

Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.
2 Kings 19:26 הָי֞וּ

Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
2 Kings 19:35 וַיְהִי֮

And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
2 Kings 19:37 וַיְהִי֩

One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
2 Kings 20:4 וַיְהִ֣יהָיָ֥ה

Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
2 Kings 20:13 הָיָ֣ה

And Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
2 Kings 20:15 הָיָ֥ה

“What have they seen in your palace?” Isaiah asked. “They have seen everything in my palace,” answered Hezekiah. “There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them.”
2 Kings 20:18 וְהָיוּ֙

And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
2 Kings 20:19 יִהְיֶ֥ה

But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”
2 Kings 21:14 וְהָי֥וּ

So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,
2 Kings 21:15 וַיִּהְי֥וּ

because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.’”
2 Kings 22:3 וַיְהִ֗י

Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah sent the scribe, Shaphan son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, to the house of the LORD, saying,
2 Kings 22:11 וַֽיְהִי֙

When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes
2 Kings 22:19 לִהְי֤וֹת

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
2 Kings 23:25 הָיָ֨ה

Neither before nor after Josiah was there any king like him, who turned to the LORD with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, according to all the Law of Moses.
2 Kings 23:27 יִהְיֶ֥ה

For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
2 Kings 24:1 וַיְהִי־

During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.
2 Kings 24:3 הָֽיְתָה֙

Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done,
2 Kings 24:7 הָיְתָ֖ה

Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.
2 Kings 24:20 הָיְתָ֤ה

For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
2 Kings 25:1 וַיְהִי֩

So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
2 Kings 25:3 הָ֥יָה

By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
2 Kings 25:16 הָיָ֣ה

As for the two pillars, the Sea, and the movable stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
2 Kings 25:25 וַיְהִ֣י׀הָי֥וּ

In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
2 Kings 25:27 וַיְהִי֩

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
1 Chronicles 1:10 לִהְי֥וֹת

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.
1 Chronicles 1:51 וַיִּהְיוּ֙

Then Hadad died. Now the chiefs of Edom were Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,
1 Chronicles 2:3 וַיְהִ֞י

The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, and Shelah. These three were born to him by Bath-shua the Canaanite. Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD, who put him to death.
1 Chronicles 2:22 וַֽיְהִי־

Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2:25 וַיִּהְי֧וּ

The sons of Jerahmeel the firstborn of Hezron: Ram his firstborn, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.
1 Chronicles 2:26 וַתְּהִ֨י

Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah, who was the mother of Onam.
1 Chronicles 2:27 וַיִּהְי֥וּ

The sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel: Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.
1 Chronicles 2:28 וַיִּהְי֥וּ

The sons of Onam: Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
1 Chronicles 2:33 הָי֖וּ

The sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the descendants of Jerahmeel.
1 Chronicles 2:34 הָיָ֧ה

Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters; but he did have an Egyptian servant named Jarha.
1 Chronicles 2:50 הָיוּ֙

These were the descendants of Caleb. The sons of Hur the firstborn of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,
1 Chronicles 2:52 וַיִּהְי֤וּ

These were the descendants of Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim: Haroeh, half the Manahathites,
1 Chronicles 3:1 הָיוּ֙

These were the sons of David who were born to him in Hebron: The firstborn was Amnon by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second was Daniel by Abigail of Carmel;
1 Chronicles 4:5 הָי֖וּ

Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
1 Chronicles 4:9 וַיְהִ֣י

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
1 Chronicles 4:10 וְהָיְתָ֤ה

And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.
1 Chronicles 4:14 הָיֽוּ׃פ

Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.
1 Chronicles 6:32 וַיִּהְי֨וּ

They ministered with song before the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem. And they performed their duties according to the regulations given them.
1 Chronicles 6:54 הָיָ֥ה

Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:
1 Chronicles 6:66 וַיְהִי֙

And some of the clans of the Kohathites were given cities from the tribe of Ephraim for their territory:
1 Chronicles 7:15 וַתִּהְיֶ֥נָה

Machir took a wife from among the Huppites and Shuppites. The name of his sister was Maacah. Another descendant was named Zelophehad, who had only daughters.
1 Chronicles 7:19 וַיִּהְי֖וּ

And these were the sons of Shemida: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.
1 Chronicles 7:23 הָיְתָ֥ה

And again he slept with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. So he named him Beriah, because tragedy had come upon his house.