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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 19:20וְהָיָ֨ה · It will be
    It will be a sign and a witness to the LORD of Hosts in the land of Egypt. When they cry out to the LORD because of their oppressors, He will send them a savior and defender to rescue them.
  2. Isaiah 19:23תִּהְיֶ֨ה · there will be
    In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.
  3. Isaiah 19:24יִהְיֶ֤ה · will join
    In that day Israel will join a three-party alliance with Egypt and Assyria—a blessing upon the earth.
  4. Isaiah 22:7וַיְהִ֥י
    Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.
  5. Isaiah 22:20וְהָיָ֖ה
    On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
  6. Isaiah 22:21וְהָיָ֥ה · and he will be
    I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
  7. Isaiah 22:23וְהָיָ֛ה · and he will be
    I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.
  8. Isaiah 23:3וַתְּהִ֖י · she was
    On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
  9. Isaiah 23:13הָיָ֔ה · of no account
    Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.
  10. Isaiah 23:15וְהָיָה֙; יִהְיֶ֣ה · it will happen
    At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
  11. Isaiah 23:17וְהָיָ֞ה · And at
    And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.
  12. Isaiah 23:18וְהָיָ֨ה · will be; יִֽהְיֶ֣ה · her
    Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
  13. Isaiah 24:2וְהָיָ֤ה
    …people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
  14. Isaiah 24:13יִהְיֶ֛ה · will it be
    So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
  15. Isaiah 24:18וְֽ֠הָיָה
    Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  16. Isaiah 24:21וְהָיָה֙
    In that day the LORD will punish the host of heaven above and the kings of the earth below.
  17. Isaiah 25:4הָיִ֨יתָ · You have been
    For You have been a refuge for the poor, a stronghold for the needy in distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat. For the breath of the ruthless is like rain against a wall,
  18. Isaiah 26:17הָיִ֥ינוּ · were we
    As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.
  19. Isaiah 27:12וְהָיָה֙
    In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, O Israelites, will be gathered one by one.
  20. Isaiah 27:13וְהָיָ֣ה׀ · And
    And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
  21. Isaiah 28:4וְֽהָ֨יְתָ֜ה · will be
    The fading flower of his beautiful splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest: Whoever sees it will take it in his hand and swallow it.
  22. Isaiah 28:5יִֽהְיֶה֙ · will be
    On that day the LORD of Hosts will be a crown of glory, a diadem of splendor to the remnant of His people,
  23. Isaiah 28:13וְהָיָ֨ה · will become
    Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.
  24. Isaiah 28:18וִהְיִ֥יתֶם · you will be
    Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
  25. Isaiah 28:19וְהָיָ֥ה
    As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.
  26. Isaiah 29:2וְהָיְתָ֤ה · and there will be; וְהָ֥יְתָה · she will be
    And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.
  27. Isaiah 29:4וְֽ֠הָיָה · will be
    You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.
  28. Isaiah 29:5וְהָיָ֛ה · will be; וְהָיָ֖ה
    But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,
  29. Isaiah 29:7וְהָיָ֗ה · will be
    All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
  30. Isaiah 29:8וְהָיָ֡ה; יִֽהְיֶ֗ה · will it be
    …as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
  31. Isaiah 29:11וַתְּהִ֨י · will be
    And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
  32. Isaiah 29:13וַתְּהִ֤י · is but
    Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
  33. Isaiah 29:15וְהָיָ֤ה
    Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
  34. Isaiah 30:3וְהָיָ֥ה · will become
    But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egypt’s shade your disgrace.
  35. Isaiah 30:4הָי֥וּ · are
    For though their princes are at Zoan and their envoys have arrived in Hanes,
  36. Isaiah 30:8וּתְהִי֙ · it will be
    Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
  37. Isaiah 30:13יִֽהְיֶ֤ה · of yours
    …this iniquity of yours is like a breach about to fail, a bulge in a high wall, whose collapse will come suddenly—in an instant!
  38. Isaiah 30:15תִּהְיֶ֖ה · would lie
    For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”
  39. Isaiah 30:20וְהָי֥וּ
    The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
  40. Isaiah 30:23וְהָיָ֥ה · will be
    Then He will send rain for the seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food that comes from your land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.
  41. Isaiah 30:25וְהָיָ֣ה׀
    And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.
  42. Isaiah 30:26וְהָיָ֤ה · will be; יִהְיֶ֣ה · will be
    The light of the moon will be as bright as the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter—like the light of seven days—on the day that the LORD binds up the brokenness of His people and heals the wounds He has inflicted.
  43. Isaiah 30:29יִֽהְיֶ֣ה
    You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.
  44. Isaiah 30:32וְהָיָ֗ה · And with
    And with every stroke of the rod of punishment that the LORD brings down on them, the tambourines and lyres will sound as He battles with weapons brandished.