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. Numbers 34:5וְהָי֥וּ · and end
    …where it will turn from Azmon, join the Brook of Egypt, and end at the Sea.
  2. Numbers 34:6וְהָיָ֥ה · will be; יִהְיֶ֥ה · will be
    Your western border will be the coastline of the Great Sea; this will be your boundary on the west.
  3. Numbers 34:7יִהְיֶ֥ה · will run
    Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,
  4. Numbers 34:8וְהָי֛וּ · extend
    …and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
  5. Numbers 34:9וְהָי֥וּ · and end; יִהְיֶ֥ה · will be
    …continue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
  6. Numbers 34:12וְהָי֥וּ · and end; תִּהְיֶ֨ה · will be
    Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”
  7. Numbers 35:3וְהָי֧וּ · will be; יִהְי֤וּ · will be
    The cities will be for them to live in, and the pasturelands will be for their herds, their flocks, and all their other livestock.
  8. Numbers 35:5יִהְיֶ֣ה · will serve
    You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.
  9. Numbers 35:11תִּהְיֶ֣ינָה · to serve as
    …designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.
  10. Numbers 35:12וְהָי֨וּ · You are to have
    You are to have these cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the manslayer will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
  11. Numbers 35:13תִּהְיֶ֥ינָה · will be
    The cities you select will be your six cities of refuge.
  12. Numbers 35:14תִּהְיֶֽינָה׃ · as
    Select three cities across the Jordan and three in the land of Canaan as cities of refuge.
  13. Numbers 35:15תִּהְיֶ֛ינָה · will serve
    These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
  14. Numbers 35:29וְהָי֨וּ · will be
    This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.
  15. Numbers 36:3וְ֠הָיוּ · But if they marry; תִּהְיֶ֖ינָה · they marry
    But if they marry any of the men from the other tribes of Israel, their inheritance will be withdrawn from the portion of our fathers and added to the tribe into which they marry. So our allotted inheritance would be taken away.
  16. Numbers 36:4יִהְיֶ֣ה · comes; תִּהְיֶ֖ינָה · they marry
    And when the Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to the tribe into which they marry and taken away from the tribe of our fathers.”
  17. Numbers 36:6תִּהְיֶ֣ינָה · They may marry; תִּהְיֶ֥ינָה · they marry
    This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.
  18. Numbers 36:8תִּהְיֶ֣ה · must marry
    Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.
  19. Numbers 36:11וַתִּהְיֶ֜ינָה
    Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their father’s side.
  20. Numbers 36:12הָי֣וּ · They married; וַתְּהִי֙ · remained
    They married within the clans of the descendants of Manasseh son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained within the tribe of their father’s clan.
  21. Deuteronomy 1:3וַיְהִי֙
    In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
  22. Deuteronomy 1:39יִהְיֶ֗ה · would become
    And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.
  23. Deuteronomy 2:15הָ֣יְתָה · was
    Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
  24. Deuteronomy 2:16וַיְהִ֨י · Now
    Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,
  25. Deuteronomy 2:36הָֽיְתָה֙ · [had walls]
    From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead, not one city had walls too high for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.
  26. Deuteronomy 3:4הָֽיְתָה֙
    At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
  27. Deuteronomy 4:20לִהְי֥וֹת · to be
    Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.
  28. Deuteronomy 4:32הָי֣וּ · preceded; הֲנִֽהְיָ֗ה · ever happened
    Indeed, ask now from one end of the heavens to the other about the days that long preceded you, from the day that God created man on earth: Has anything as great as this ever happened or been reported?
  29. Deuteronomy 5:7יִהְיֶ֥ה־ · You shall have
    You shall have no other gods before Me.
  30. Deuteronomy 5:15הָיִ֣֙יתָ֙׀ · you were
    Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  31. Deuteronomy 5:23וַיְהִ֗י
    And when you heard the voice out of the darkness while the mountain was blazing with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,
  32. Deuteronomy 5:29וְהָיָה֩ · they had
    If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
  33. Deuteronomy 6:6וְהָי֞וּ · are to be
    These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.
  34. Deuteronomy 6:8וְהָי֥וּ · and bind them
    Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
  35. Deuteronomy 6:10וְהָיָ֞ה
    And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
  36. Deuteronomy 6:21הָיִ֥ינוּ · We were
    …then you are to tell him, “We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
  37. Deuteronomy 6:25תִּֽהְיֶה־ · will be
    And if we are careful to observe every one of these commandments before the LORD our God, as He has commanded us, then that will be our righteousness.”
  38. Deuteronomy 7:6לִהְי֥וֹת · to be
    For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all peoples on the face of the earth.
  39. Deuteronomy 7:12וְהָיָ֣ה׀
    If you listen to these ordinances and keep them carefully, then the LORD your God will keep His covenant and the loving devotion that He swore to your fathers.
  40. Deuteronomy 7:14תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה · You will be; יִהְיֶ֥ה · there will be
    You will be blessed above all peoples; among you there will be no barren man or woman or livestock.