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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. 1 Kings 22:22וְהָיִ֙יתִי֙ · and be
    And he replied, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets.’ ‘You will surely entice him and prevail,’ said the LORD. ‘Go and do it.’
  2. 1 Kings 22:32וַיְהִ֡י
    When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they said, “Surely this is the king of Israel!” So they turned to fight against him, but Jehoshaphat cried out.
  3. 1 Kings 22:33וַיְהִ֗י · And
    And when the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
  4. 1 Kings 22:35הָיָ֧ה · was
    The battle raged throughout that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot facing the Arameans. And the blood from his wound ran out onto the floor of the chariot, and that evening he died.
  5. 2 Kings 1:17הָ֥יָה · he had
    So Ahaziah died according to the word of the LORD that Elijah had spoken. And since he had no son, Jehoram succeeded him in the second year of the reign of Jehoram son of Jehoshaphat over Judah.
  6. 2 Kings 2:1וַיְהִ֗י · Shortly before
    Shortly before the LORD took Elijah up to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal,
  7. 2 Kings 2:9וַיְהִ֣י · After; וִֽיהִי־ · let me
    After they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Tell me, what can I do for you before I am taken away from you?” “Please, let me inherit a double portion of your spirit,” Elisha replied.
  8. 2 Kings 2:10יְהִֽי־ · it will be; יִהְיֶֽה׃ · be [so]
    “You have requested a difficult thing,” said Elijah. “Nevertheless, if you see me as I am taken from you, it will be yours. But if not, then it will not be so.”
  9. 2 Kings 2:11וַיְהִ֗י
    As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire with horses of fire appeared and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
  10. 2 Kings 2:21יִהְיֶ֥ה · will it cause
    …and Elisha went out to the spring, cast the salt into it, and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will it cause death or unfruitfulness.’”
  11. 2 Kings 3:4הָיָ֣ה · was
    Now Mesha king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he would render to the king of Israel a hundred thousand lambs and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.
  12. 2 Kings 3:5וַיְהִ֖י · But after
    But after the death of Ahab, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.
  13. 2 Kings 3:9הָיָ֨ה
    So the king of Israel, the king of Judah, and the king of Edom set out, and after they had traveled a roundabout route for seven days, they had no water for their army or for their animals.
  14. 2 Kings 3:15וְהָיָה֙ · And while; וַתְּהִ֥י · came
    But now, bring me a harpist.” And while the harpist played, the hand of the LORD came upon Elisha
  15. 2 Kings 3:20וַיְהִ֤י
    The next morning, at the time of the morning sacrifice, water suddenly flowed from the direction of Edom and filled the land.
  16. 2 Kings 3:27וַיְהִ֥י · And there was
    So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. And there was great fury against the Israelites, so they withdrew and returned to their own land.
  17. 2 Kings 4:1הָיָ֥ה
    Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
  18. 2 Kings 4:6וַיְהִ֣י׀ · When
    When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another.” But he replied, “There are no more jars.” Then the oil stopped flowing.
  19. 2 Kings 4:8וַיְהִ֨י; וַֽיְהִי֙ · So whenever
    One day Elisha went to Shunem, and a prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to have a meal. So whenever he would pass by, he would stop there to eat.
  20. 2 Kings 4:10וְהָיָ֛ה · Then when
    Please let us make a small room upstairs and put in it a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp for him. Then when he comes to us, he can stay there.”
  21. 2 Kings 4:11וַיְהִ֥י
    One day Elisha came to visit and went to his upper room to lie down.
  22. 2 Kings 4:18וַיְהִ֣י · And
    And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
  23. 2 Kings 4:25וַ֠יְהִי
    So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.
  24. 2 Kings 4:40וַ֠יְהִי
    And they poured it out for the men to eat, but when they tasted the stew they cried out, “There is death in the pot, O man of God!” And they could not eat it.
  25. 2 Kings 4:41הָיָ֛ה · And there was
    Then Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour it out for the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
  26. 2 Kings 5:1הָיָ֣ה · was; הָיָ֛ה · And he was
    Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
  27. 2 Kings 5:2וַתְּהִ֕י · and she was serving
    At this time the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken a young girl from the land of Israel, and she was serving Naaman’s wife.
  28. 2 Kings 5:7וַיְהִ֡י
    When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
  29. 2 Kings 5:8וַיְהִ֞י · Now
    Now when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent a message to the king: “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let the man come to me, and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel.”
  30. 2 Kings 6:5וַיְהִ֤י
    As one of them was cutting down a tree, the iron axe head fell into the water. “Oh, my master,” he cried out, “it was borrowed!”
  31. 2 Kings 6:8הָיָ֥ה · was
    Now the king of Aram was at war against Israel. After consulting with his servants, he said, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”
  32. 2 Kings 6:20וַיְהִי֮
    When they had entered Samaria, Elisha said, “O LORD, open the eyes of these men that they may see.” Then the LORD opened their eyes, and they looked around and discovered that they were in Samaria.
  33. 2 Kings 6:24וַֽיְהִי֙
    Some time later, Ben-hadad king of Aram assembled his entire army and marched up to besiege Samaria.
  34. 2 Kings 6:25וַיְהִ֨י · So there was; הֱי֤וֹת · sold
    So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.
  35. 2 Kings 6:26וַֽיְהִי֙
    As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, “Help me, my lord the king!”
  36. 2 Kings 6:30וַיְהִי֩
    When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. And as he passed by on the wall, the people saw the sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
  37. 2 Kings 7:2הֲיִהְיֶ֖ה · really happen
    But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”
  38. 2 Kings 7:3הָי֥וּ · Now there were
    Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
  39. 2 Kings 7:16וַיְהִ֨י · It was then that
    Then the people went out and plundered the camp of the Arameans. It was then that a seah of fine flour sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley sold for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
  40. 2 Kings 7:18וַיְהִ֗י · It happened; יִהְיֶה֙ · will sell
    It happened just as the man of God had told the king: “About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel, and a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel.”
  41. 2 Kings 7:19הֲיִהְיֶ֖ה · really happen
    And the officer had answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” So Elisha had replied, “You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”
  42. 2 Kings 7:20וַיְהִי־ · is just what happened
    And that is just what happened to him. The people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.
  43. 2 Kings 8:3וַיְהִ֗י
    At the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to the king to appeal for her house and her land.