Keraia
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הָיָה

ha.yahto beHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb3,561 occurrences39 books3,132 verses

Definition

a primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
Traditional renderings: beacon, × altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, follow, happen, × have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, × use.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders הָיָה:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

3,561 total
  1. Leviticus 25:5יִהְיֶ֥ה · must have
    You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.
  2. Leviticus 25:6וְ֠הָיְתָה · shall be
    Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
  3. Leviticus 25:7תִּהְיֶ֥ה · may serve
    …and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.
  4. Leviticus 25:8וְהָי֣וּ
    And you shall count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years—so that the seven Sabbaths of years amount to forty-nine years.
  5. Leviticus 25:10תִּהְיֶ֣ה · shall be
    So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
  6. Leviticus 25:11תִּהְיֶ֣ה · will be
    The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.
  7. Leviticus 25:12תִּהְיֶ֣ה · it shall be
    For it is a Jubilee; it shall be holy to you. You may eat only the crops taken directly from the field.
  8. Leviticus 25:26יִֽהְיֶה־ · has
    Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,
  9. Leviticus 25:28וְהָיָ֣ה · will remain
    But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
  10. Leviticus 25:29וְהָיְתָה֙ · he retains; תִּהְיֶ֥ה · it may be
    If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.
  11. Leviticus 25:31תִּהְיֶה־ · and they shall be
    But houses in villages with no walls around them are to be considered as open fields. They may be redeemed, and they shall be released in the Jubilee.
  12. Leviticus 25:32תִּהְיֶ֥ה · have
    As for the cities of the Levites, the Levites always have the right to redeem their houses in the cities they possess.
  13. Leviticus 25:38לִהְי֥וֹת · and to be
    I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
  14. Leviticus 25:40יִהְיֶ֣ה · Let him stay
    Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
  15. Leviticus 25:44יִהְיוּ־ · shall come
    Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.
  16. Leviticus 25:45וְהָי֥וּ · These may become
    You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
  17. Leviticus 25:48תִּהְיֶה־ · he retains
    …he retains the right of redemption after he has sold himself. One of his brothers may redeem him:
  18. Leviticus 25:50וְהָיָ֞ה · will be; יִהְיֶ֥ה · based on
    He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
  19. Leviticus 25:53יִהְיֶ֣ה · He shall be treated
    He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.
  20. Leviticus 26:12וְהָיִ֥יתִי · and be; תִּהְיוּ־ · will be
    I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be My people.
  21. Leviticus 26:13מִֽהְיֹ֥ת · so that you would no longer be
    I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians. I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk in uprightness.
  22. Leviticus 26:33וְהָיְתָ֤ה · becomes; יִהְי֥וּ · are laid
    But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.
  23. Leviticus 26:37תִֽהְיֶ֤ה · be
    They will stumble over one another as before the sword, though no one is behind them. So you will not be able to stand against your enemies.
  24. Leviticus 26:44בִּֽהְיוֹתָ֞ם · when they are
    Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
  25. Leviticus 26:45לִהְיֹ֥ת · that I might be
    But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”
  26. Leviticus 27:3וְהָיָ֤ה · concerns; וְהָיָ֣ה · shall be
    …if the valuation concerns a male from twenty to sixty years of age, then your valuation shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the sanctuary shekel.
  27. Leviticus 27:4וְהָיָ֥ה · shall be
    Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
  28. Leviticus 27:5וְהָיָ֧ה · shall be
    And if the person is from five to twenty years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
  29. Leviticus 27:6וְהָיָ֤ה · shall be
    Now if the person is from one month to five years of age, then your valuation for the male shall be five shekels of silver, and for the female three shekels of silver.
  30. Leviticus 27:7וְהָיָ֣ה · shall be
    And if the person is sixty years of age or older, then your valuation shall be fifteen shekels for the male and ten shekels for the female.
  31. Leviticus 27:9יִֽהְיֶה־ · shall be
    If he vows an animal that may be brought as an offering to the LORD, any such animal given to the LORD shall be holy.
  32. Leviticus 27:10וְהָֽיָה־ · will be; יִֽהְיֶה־
    He must not replace it or exchange it, either good for bad or bad for good. But if he does substitute one animal for another, both that animal and its substitute will be holy.
  33. Leviticus 27:12יִהְיֶֽה׃ · will be set
    The priest shall set its value, whether high or low; as the priest values it, the price will be set.
  34. Leviticus 27:15וְהָ֥יָה · and it will belong
    But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.
  35. Leviticus 27:16וְהָיָ֥ה · shall be
    If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
  36. Leviticus 27:21וְהָיָ֨ה · it will become; תִּהְיֶ֥ה · it becomes
    When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will become holy, like a field devoted to the LORD; it becomes the property of the priests.
  37. Leviticus 27:25יִהְיֶ֖ה · will be; יִהְיֶ֥ה
    Every valuation will be according to the sanctuary shekel, twenty gerahs to the shekel.
  38. Leviticus 27:32יִֽהְיֶה־ · will be
    Every tenth animal from the herd or flock that passes under the shepherd’s rod will be holy to the LORD.
  39. Leviticus 27:33וְהָֽיָה־ · shall become; יִֽהְיֶה־
    He must not inspect whether it is good or bad, and he shall not make any substitution. But if he does make a substitution, both the animal and its substitute shall become holy; they cannot be redeemed.’”
  40. Numbers 1:4יִהְי֔וּ · must be there
    And one man from each tribe, the head of each family, must be there with you.
  41. Numbers 1:20וַיִּהְי֤וּ
    From the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, according to the records of their clans and families, counting one by one the names of every male twenty years of age or older who could serve in the army,