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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. Isaiah 7:25וְהָיָה֙ · they will become
    For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
  2. Isaiah 8:8וְהָיָה֙
    It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!
  3. Isaiah 8:14וְהָיָ֖ה · And He will be
    And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
  4. Isaiah 8:21וְהָיָ֨ה
    They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
  5. Isaiah 9:5וְהָיְתָ֥ה · will be
    For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
  6. Isaiah 9:6וַתְּהִ֥י · will be
    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  7. Isaiah 9:16וַיִּֽהְי֛וּ · For
    For those who guide this people mislead them, and those they mislead are swallowed up.
  8. Isaiah 9:19וַיְהִ֤י · are
    By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
  9. Isaiah 10:2לִהְי֤וֹת · to make
    …to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
  10. Isaiah 10:12וְהָיָ֗ה
    So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
  11. Isaiah 10:14הָיָה֙
    My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
  12. Isaiah 10:17וְהָיָ֤ה · will become
    And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
  13. Isaiah 10:18וְהָיָ֖ה
    The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
  14. Isaiah 10:19יִֽהְי֑וּ · will be
    The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
  15. Isaiah 10:20וְהָיָ֣ה׀
    On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
  16. Isaiah 10:22יִהְיֶ֞ה · be
    Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand of the sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been decreed, overflowing with righteousness.
  17. Isaiah 10:27וְהָיָ֣ה׀
    On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.
  18. Isaiah 11:5וְהָ֥יָה · will be
    Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.
  19. Isaiah 11:10וְהָיָה֙; וְהָיְתָ֥ה
    On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
  20. Isaiah 11:11וְהָיָ֣ה׀
    On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
  21. Isaiah 11:16וְהָיְתָ֣ה · There will be; הָֽיְתָה֙ · there was
    There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
  22. Isaiah 12:2וַֽיְהִי־ · and He also has become
    Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”
  23. Isaiah 13:14וְהָיָה֙
    Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.
  24. Isaiah 13:19וְהָיְתָ֤ה · will be
    And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.
  25. Isaiah 14:2וְהָיוּ֙ · They will make
    The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
  26. Isaiah 14:3וְהָיָ֗ה
    On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
  27. Isaiah 14:24הָיָ֔תָה · will it be
    The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
  28. Isaiah 14:28הָיָ֖ה · was received
    In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
  29. Isaiah 15:6יִֽהְי֑וּ · are; הָיָֽה׃ · is
    The waters of Nimrim are dried up, and the grass is withered; the vegetation is gone, and the greenery is no more.
  30. Isaiah 16:2וְהָיָ֥ה; תִּֽהְיֶ֙ינָה֙ · so are
    Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
  31. Isaiah 16:12וְהָיָ֧ה
    When Moab appears on the high place, when he wearies himself and enters his sanctuary to pray, it will do him no good.
  32. Isaiah 17:1וְהָיְתָ֖ה · it has become
    This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
  33. Isaiah 17:2תִּֽהְיֶ֔ינָה · they will be left
    The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.
  34. Isaiah 17:3יִֽהְי֔וּ · will be
    The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the sovereignty from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the splendor of the Israelites,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
  35. Isaiah 17:4וְהָיָה֙ · In
    “In that day the splendor of Jacob will fade, and the fat of his body will waste away,
  36. Isaiah 17:5וְהָיָ֗ה · as; וְהָיָ֛ה
    …as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
  37. Isaiah 17:9יִהְי֣וּ׀ · will be like; וְהָיְתָ֖ה · and to utter
    In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.
  38. Isaiah 18:5יִֽהְיֶ֣ה · becomes
    For before the harvest, when the blossom is gone and the flower becomes a ripening grape, He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife and remove and discard the branches.
  39. Isaiah 19:10וְהָי֥וּ · will be
    The workers in cloth will be dejected, and all the hired workers will be sick at heart.
  40. Isaiah 19:15יִהְיֶ֥ה · There is
    There is nothing Egypt can do—head or tail, palm or reed.
  41. Isaiah 19:16יִֽהְיֶ֥ה · will be
    In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
  42. Isaiah 19:17וְ֠הָיְתָה
    The land of Judah will bring terror to Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble over what the LORD of Hosts has planned against it.
  43. Isaiah 19:18יִהְיוּ֩
    In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will speak the language of Canaan and swear allegiance to the LORD of Hosts. One of them will be called the City of the Sun.
  44. Isaiah 19:19יִֽהְיֶ֤ה · there will be
    In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the center of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD near her border.