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

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Concordance 3,132 verses

  1. Exodus 6:28 וַיְהִ֗י

    Now on the day that the LORD spoke to Moses in Egypt,

  2. Exodus 7:1 יִהְיֶ֥ה

    The LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

  3. Exodus 7:9 יְהִ֥י

    “When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”

  4. Exodus 7:10 וַיְהִ֥י

    So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

  5. Exodus 7:12 וַיִּהְי֖וּ

    Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.

  6. Exodus 7:19 וְיִֽהְיוּ־וְהָ֤יָה

    And the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.”

  7. Exodus 7:21 וַיְהִ֥י

    The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad that the Egyptians could not drink its water. And there was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

  8. Exodus 8:15 הָֽיְתָה֙

    When Pharaoh saw that there was relief, however, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said.

  9. Exodus 8:16 וְהָיָ֥ה

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, that it may turn into swarms of gnats throughout the land of Egypt.’”

  10. Exodus 8:17 וַתְּהִי֙הָיָ֥ה

    This they did, and when Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, gnats came upon man and beast. All the dust of the earth turned into gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

  11. Exodus 8:18 וַתְּהִי֙

    The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.

  12. Exodus 8:22 הֱיֽוֹת־

    But on that day I will give special treatment to the land of Goshen, where My people live; no swarms of flies will be found there. In this way you will know that I, the LORD, am in the land.

  13. Exodus 8:23 יִהְיֶ֖ה

    I will make a distinction between My people and your people. This sign will take place tomorrow.’”

  14. Exodus 9:3 הוֹיָ֗ה

    then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

  15. Exodus 9:9 וְהָיָ֣הוְהָיָ֨ה

    It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and festering boils will break out on man and beast throughout the land.”

  16. Exodus 9:10 וַיְהִ֗י

    So they took soot from the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. Moses tossed it into the air, and festering boils broke out on man and beast.

  17. Exodus 9:11 הָיָ֣ה

    The magicians could not stand before Moses, because the boils had broken out on them and on all the Egyptians.

  18. Exodus 9:18 הָיָ֤ה

    Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

  19. Exodus 9:22 וִיהִ֥י

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt—on man and beast and every plant of the field throughout the land of Egypt.”

  20. Exodus 9:24 וַיְהִ֣יהָיָ֤ההָיְתָ֥ה

    The hail fell and the lightning continued flashing through it. The hail was so severe that nothing like it had ever been seen in all the land of Egypt from the time it became a nation.

  21. Exodus 9:26 הָיָ֖ה

    The only place where it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived.

  22. Exodus 9:28 מִֽהְיֹ֛ת

    Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”

  23. Exodus 9:29 יִֽהְיֶה־

    Moses said to him, “When I have left the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD’s.

  24. Exodus 10:6 הֱיוֹתָם֙

    They will fill your houses and the houses of all your officials and every Egyptian—something neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen since the day they came into this land.’” Then Moses turned and left Pharaoh’s presence.

  25. Exodus 10:7 יִהְיֶ֨ה

    Pharaoh’s officials asked him, “How long will this man be a snare to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the LORD their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is in ruins?”

  26. Exodus 10:10 יְהִ֨י

    Then Pharaoh told them, “May the LORD be with you if I ever let you go with your little ones. Clearly you are bent on evil.

  27. Exodus 10:13 הָיָ֔ה

    So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and throughout that day and night the LORD sent an east wind across the land. By morning the east wind had brought the locusts.

  28. Exodus 10:14 הָ֨יָהיִֽהְיֶה־

    The locusts swarmed across the land and settled over the entire territory of Egypt. Never before had there been so many locusts, and never again will there be.

  29. Exodus 10:21 וִ֥יהִי

    Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”

  30. Exodus 10:22 וַיְהִ֧י

    So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all the land of Egypt for three days.

  31. Exodus 10:23 הָ֥יָה

    No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.

  32. Exodus 11:6 וְהָֽיְתָ֛הנִהְיָ֔תָה

    Then a great cry will go out over all the land of Egypt. Such an outcry has never been heard before and will never be heard again.

  33. Exodus 12:4 מִהְיֹ֣ת

    If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.

  34. Exodus 12:5 יִהְיֶ֣ה

    Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

  35. Exodus 12:6 וְהָיָ֤ה

    You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

  36. Exodus 12:13 וְהָיָה֩יִֽהְיֶ֨ה

    The blood on the houses where you are staying will distinguish them; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

  37. Exodus 12:14 וְהָיָה֩

    And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

  38. Exodus 12:16 יִהְיֶ֣ה

    On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

  39. Exodus 12:25 וְהָיָ֞ה

    When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.

  40. Exodus 12:26 וְהָיָ֕ה

    When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

  41. Exodus 12:29 וַיְהִ֣י׀

    Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

  42. Exodus 12:30 וַתְּהִ֛י

    During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

  43. Exodus 12:41 וַיְהִ֗יוַיְהִ֗י

    At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

  44. Exodus 12:48 וְהָיָ֖ה

    If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

  45. Exodus 12:49 יִהְיֶ֖ה

    The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

  46. Exodus 12:51 וַיְהִ֕י

    And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

  47. Exodus 13:5 וְהָיָ֣ה

    And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and honey—you shall keep this service in this month.

  48. Exodus 13:9 וְהָיָה֩תִּהְיֶ֛ה

    It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

  49. Exodus 13:11 וְהָיָ֞ה

    And after the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites and gives it to you, as He swore to you and your fathers,

  50. Exodus 13:12 יִהְיֶ֥ה

    you are to present to the LORD the firstborn male of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.

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