הָיָה
ha.yah
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)
Translated as (BSB)
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Concordance 3,132 verses
- Esther 8:16 הָֽיְתָ֥ה
For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.
- Esther 9:21 לִהְי֣וֹת
to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
- Esther 9:27 לִהְי֣וֹת
the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
- Job 1:1 הָיָ֥הוְהָיָ֣ה׀
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And this man was blameless and upright, fearing God and shunning evil.
- Job 1:3 וַיְהִ֣יוַיְהִי֙
and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.
- Job 1:5 וַיְהִ֡י
And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
- Job 1:6 וַיְהִ֣י
One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.
- Job 1:13 וַיְהִ֖י
One day, while Job’s sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- Job 1:14 הָי֣וּ
a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
- Job 1:21 יְהִ֛י
saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Job 2:1 וַיְהִ֣י
On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.
- Job 3:4 יְֽהִ֫י
If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
- Job 3:7 יְהִ֣י
Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
- Job 3:16 אֶהְיֶ֑ה
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Job 5:16 וַתְּהִ֣י
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
- Job 6:10 וּ֥תְהִי
It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
- Job 6:21 הֱיִ֣יתֶם
For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.
- Job 6:29 תְּהִ֣י
Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.
- Job 7:20 וָאֶהְיֶ֖ה
If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You ?
- Job 8:7 וְהָיָ֣ה
Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.
- Job 10:19 הָיִ֣יתִיאֶהְיֶ֑ה
If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 11:4 הָיִ֥יתִי
You have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
- Job 11:15 וְהָיִ֥יתָ
then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.
- Job 11:17 תִּהְיֶֽה׃
Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
- Job 12:4 אֶֽהְיֶ֗ה
I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.
- Job 13:5 וּתְהִ֖י
If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!
- Job 15:31 תִּהְיֶ֥ה
Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
- Job 16:8 הָיָ֑ה
You have bound me, and it has become a witness; my frailty rises up and testifies against me.
- Job 16:12 הָיִ֨יתִי׀
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
- Job 16:18 יְהִ֥י
O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry for help never be laid to rest.
- Job 17:6 אֶֽהְיֶֽה׃
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
- Job 18:12 יְהִי־
His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.
- Job 19:15 הָיִ֥יתִי
My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
- Job 20:23 יְהִ֤י׀
When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.
- Job 21:2 וּתְהִי־
“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
- Job 21:18 יִהְי֗וּ
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
- Job 22:25 וְהָיָ֣ה
then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.
- Job 24:13 הָיוּ֮
Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
- Job 24:14 יְהִ֣י
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
- Job 27:7 יְהִ֣י
May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
- Job 29:4 הָ֭יִיתִי
when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,
- Job 29:15 הָ֭יִיתִי
I served as eyes to the blind and as feet to the lame.
- Job 30:9 הָיִ֑יתִיוָאֱהִ֖י
And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
- Job 30:29 הָיִ֣יתִי
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
- Job 30:31 וַיְהִ֣י
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
- Job 38:4 הָ֭יִיתָ
Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.
- Job 42:7 וַיְהִ֗י
After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
- Job 42:12 וַֽיְהִי־
So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
- Job 42:13 וַֽיְהִי־
And he also had seven sons and three daughters.
- Psalms 1:3 וְֽהָיָ֗ה
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.
