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. Genesis 42:36 הָי֥וּ

    Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”

  2. Genesis 43:2 וַיְהִ֗י

    So when Jacob’s sons had eaten all the grain they had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us a little more food.”

  3. Genesis 43:21 וַֽיְהִ֞י

    But when we came to the place we lodged for the night, we opened our sacks and, behold, each of us found his silver in the mouth of his sack! It was the full amount of our silver, and we have brought it back with us.

  4. Genesis 44:9 נִֽהְיֶ֥ה

    If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”

  5. Genesis 44:10 יִהְיֶה־תִּהְי֥וּ

    “As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”

  6. Genesis 44:17 יִהְיֶה־

    But Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”

  7. Genesis 44:24 וַיְהִי֙

    Now when we returned to your servant my father, we relayed your words to him.

  8. Genesis 44:31 וְהָיָ֗ה

    sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

  9. Genesis 45:10 וְהָיִ֤יתָ

    You shall settle in the land of Goshen and be near me—you and your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and everything you own.

  10. Genesis 46:12 וַיִּהְי֥וּ

    The sons of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah; but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul.

  11. Genesis 46:32 הָי֑וּ

    The men are shepherds; they raise livestock, and they have brought their flocks and herds and all that they own.’

  12. Genesis 46:33 וְהָיָ֕ה

    When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ‘What is your occupation?’

  13. Genesis 46:34 הָי֤וּ

    you are to say, ‘Your servants have raised livestock ever since our youth—both we and our fathers.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to the Egyptians.”

  14. Genesis 47:9 הָיוּ֙

    “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

  15. Genesis 47:19 וְנִֽהְיֶ֞ה

    Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

  16. Genesis 47:20 וַתְּהִ֥י

    So Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

  17. Genesis 47:24 וְהָיָה֙יִהְיֶ֣ה

    At harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”

  18. Genesis 47:25 וְהָיִ֥ינוּ

    “You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”

  19. Genesis 47:26 הָיְתָ֖ה

    So Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.

  20. Genesis 47:28 וַיְהִ֤י

    And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.

  21. Genesis 48:1 וַיְהִ֗י

    Some time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.

  22. Genesis 48:5 יִֽהְיוּ־

    And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.

  23. Genesis 48:6 יִהְי֑וּ

    Any children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.

  24. Genesis 48:19 יִֽהְיֶה־יִהְיֶ֥ה

    But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

  25. Genesis 48:21 וְהָיָ֤ה

    Then Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

  26. Genesis 49:15 וַיְהִ֖י

    He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.

  27. Genesis 49:17 יְהִי־

    He will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

  28. Genesis 49:26 תִּֽהְיֶ֙ין֙

    The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

  29. Genesis 50:9 וַיְהִ֥י

    Chariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.

  30. Exodus 1:5 וַֽיְהִ֗יהָיָ֥ה

    The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.

  31. Exodus 1:10 וְהָיָ֞ה

    Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”

  32. Exodus 1:21 וַיְהִ֕י

    And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.

  33. Exodus 2:10 וַֽיְהִי־

    When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

  34. Exodus 2:11 וַיְהִ֣י׀

    One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

  35. Exodus 2:22 הָיִ֔יתִי

    And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

  36. Exodus 2:23 וַיְהִי֩

    After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

  37. Exodus 3:1 הָיָ֥ה

    Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  38. Exodus 3:12 אֶֽהְיֶ֣ה

    “I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”

  39. Exodus 3:14 אֶֽהְיֶ֖האֶֽהְיֶ֑האֶֽהְיֶ֖ה

    God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

  40. Exodus 3:21 וְהָיָה֙

    And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.

  41. Exodus 4:3 וַיְהִ֣י

    “Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it.

  42. Exodus 4:4 וַיְהִ֥י

    “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

  43. Exodus 4:8 וְהָיָה֙

    And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.

  44. Exodus 4:9 וְהָיָ֡הוְהָי֤וּוְהָי֥וּ

    But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”

  45. Exodus 4:12 אֶֽהְיֶ֣ה

    Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”

  46. Exodus 4:15 אֶֽהְיֶ֤ה

    You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.

  47. Exodus 4:16 וְהָ֤יָהיִֽהְיֶה־תִּֽהְיֶה־

    He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.

  48. Exodus 4:24 וַיְהִ֥י

    Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.

  49. Exodus 5:13 בִּהְי֥וֹת

    The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”

  50. Exodus 6:7 וְהָיִ֥יתִי

    I will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

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