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)

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Concordance 3,132 verses

  1. Jeremiah 34:12 וַיְהִ֤י

    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

  2. Jeremiah 34:16 לִֽהְי֣וֹת

    But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

  3. Jeremiah 34:20 וְהָיְתָ֤ה

    I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.

  4. Jeremiah 35:1 הָיָ֥ה

    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:

  5. Jeremiah 35:7 יִֽהְיֶ֖ה

    Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’

  6. Jeremiah 35:9 יִֽהְיֶה־

    Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.

  7. Jeremiah 35:11 וַיְהִ֗י

    So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”

  8. Jeremiah 35:12 וַֽיְהִי֙

    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

  9. Jeremiah 36:1 וַֽיְהִי֙הָיָ֞ה

    In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

  10. Jeremiah 36:9 וַיְהִ֣י

    Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.

  11. Jeremiah 36:16 וַיְהִ֗י

    When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”

  12. Jeremiah 36:23 וַיְהִ֣י׀

    And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

  13. Jeremiah 36:27 וַיְהִ֥י

    After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

  14. Jeremiah 36:28 הָי֗וּ

    “Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.

  15. Jeremiah 36:30 יִֽהְיֶה־תִּֽהְיֶ֣ה

    Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.

  16. Jeremiah 37:6 וַֽיְהִי֙

    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:

  17. Jeremiah 37:11 וְהָיָ֗ה

    When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

  18. Jeremiah 37:13 וַיְהִי־

    But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

  19. Jeremiah 38:2 וְהָיְתָה־

    “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.

  20. Jeremiah 38:28 וְהָיָ֕ה

    And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.

  21. Jeremiah 39:4 וַיְהִ֡י

    When Zedekiah king of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls, and they went out along the route to the Arabah.

  22. Jeremiah 39:15 הָיָ֣הבִּֽהְיֹת֣וֹ

    And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:

  23. Jeremiah 39:16 וְהָי֥וּ

    “Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes.

  24. Jeremiah 39:18 וְהָיְתָ֨ה

    For I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the LORD.’”

  25. Jeremiah 40:1 הָיָ֤ה

    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

  26. Jeremiah 40:3 וְהָיָ֥ה

    and now the LORD has fulfilled it; He has done just as He said. Because you people have sinned against the LORD and have not obeyed His voice, this thing has happened to you.

  27. Jeremiah 41:1 וַיְהִ֣י׀

    In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with ten men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah, and they ate a meal together there.

  28. Jeremiah 41:2 הָי֣וּ

    Then Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him got up and struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword, killing the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed to govern the land.

  29. Jeremiah 41:3 הָי֨וּ

    Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Chaldean soldiers who were there.

  30. Jeremiah 41:4 וַיְהִ֛י

    On the second day after the murder of Gedaliah, when no one yet knew about it,

  31. Jeremiah 41:6 וַֽיְהִי֙

    And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When Ishmael encountered the men, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”

  32. Jeremiah 41:7 וַיְהִ֕י

    And when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.

  33. Jeremiah 41:13 וַיְהִ֗י

    When all the people with Ishmael saw Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the army with him, they rejoiced,

  34. Jeremiah 42:4 וְֽהָיָ֡ה

    “I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will surely pray to the LORD your God as you request, and I will tell you everything that the LORD answers; I will not withhold a word from you.”

  35. Jeremiah 42:5 יְהִ֤י

    Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

  36. Jeremiah 42:7 וַיְהִ֕יוַיְהִ֥י

    After ten days the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah,

  37. Jeremiah 42:16 וְהָיְתָ֣ה

    then the sword you fear will overtake you there, and the famine you dread will follow on your heels into Egypt, and you will die there.

  38. Jeremiah 42:17 וְיִֽהְי֣וּיִהְיֶ֤ה

    So all who resolve to go to Egypt to reside there will die by sword and famine and plague. Not one of them will survive or escape the disaster I will bring upon them.’

  39. Jeremiah 42:18 וִהְיִיתֶ֞ם

    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’

  40. Jeremiah 43:1 וַיְהִי֩

    When Jeremiah had finished telling all the people all the words of the LORD their God—everything that the LORD had sent him to say—

  41. Jeremiah 43:8 וַיְהִ֤י

    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes:

  42. Jeremiah 44:1 הָיָ֣ה

    This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt —in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis —and in the land of Pathros:

  43. Jeremiah 44:6 וַתִּהְיֶ֛ינָה

    Therefore My wrath and anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, so that they have become the desolate ruin they are today.

  44. Jeremiah 44:8 הֱיֽוֹתְכֶם֙

    Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.

  45. Jeremiah 44:12 וְהָיוּ֙

    And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.

  46. Jeremiah 44:14 יִהְיֶ֜ה

    so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”

  47. Jeremiah 44:17 וַנִּֽהְיֶ֣ה

    Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.

  48. Jeremiah 44:22 וַתְּהִ֣י

    So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

  49. Jeremiah 44:26 יִהְיֶה֩

    Nevertheless, hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah living in Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that never again will any man of Judah living in the land of Egypt invoke My name or say, ‘As surely as the Lord GOD lives.’

  50. Jeremiah 46:1 הָיָ֧ה

    This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet

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