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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. Jeremiah 18:5וַיְהִ֥י · came
    Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  2. Jeremiah 18:21וְתִֽהְיֶ֨נָה · become; יִֽהְי֖וּ
    Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.
  3. Jeremiah 18:23וְהָיוּ
    But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
  4. Jeremiah 19:13וְהָי֞וּ · will be
    The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
  5. Jeremiah 20:3וַֽיְהִי֙
    The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
  6. Jeremiah 20:7הָיִ֤יתִי · I am
    You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
  7. Jeremiah 20:8הָיָ֨ה · has become
    For whenever I speak, I cry out; I proclaim violence and destruction. For the word of the LORD has become to me a reproach and derision all day long.
  8. Jeremiah 20:9וְהָיָ֤ה · [His message] becomes
    If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
  9. Jeremiah 20:14יְהִ֥י
    Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
  10. Jeremiah 20:16וְהָיָה֙ · be
    May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
  11. Jeremiah 20:17וַתְּהִי־ · might have been
    …because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
  12. Jeremiah 21:1הָיָ֥ה · came
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
  13. Jeremiah 21:9וְהָֽיְתָה־ · he will retain
    Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who besiege you will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war.
  14. Jeremiah 22:5יִֽהְיֶ֖ה · will become
    But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself, declares the LORD, that this house will become a pile of rubble.’”
  15. Jeremiah 22:24יִהְיֶ֞ה · were
    “As surely as I live,” declares the LORD, “even if you, Coniah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, were a signet ring on My right hand, I would pull you off.
  16. Jeremiah 23:9הָיִ֙יתִי֙ · I have become
    As for the prophets: My heart is broken within me, and all my bones tremble. I have become like a drunkard, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD, because of His holy words.
  17. Jeremiah 23:10וַתְּהִ֤י · is
    For the land is full of adulterers—because of the curse, the land mourns and the pastures of the wilderness have dried up—their course is evil and their power is misused.
  18. Jeremiah 23:12יִֽהְיֶ֨ה · will become
    “Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
  19. Jeremiah 23:14הָֽיוּ־ · They are
    And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.”
  20. Jeremiah 23:17יִֽהְיֶ֣ה · you will have
    They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
  21. Jeremiah 23:36יִֽהְיֶה֙ · becomes
    But refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
  22. Jeremiah 24:4וַיְהִ֥י · came
    Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  23. Jeremiah 24:7וְהָיוּ־ · They will be; אֶהְיֶ֥ה · will be
    I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with all their heart.
  24. Jeremiah 25:1הָיָ֤ה · came
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, which was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
  25. Jeremiah 25:3הָיָ֥ה · has come
    “From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon king of Judah until this very day—twenty-three years—the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
  26. Jeremiah 25:11וְהָֽיְתָה֙ · will become
    And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
  27. Jeremiah 25:12וְהָיָ֣ה · But when
    But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
  28. Jeremiah 25:28וְהָיָ֗ה
    If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!
  29. Jeremiah 25:33וְהָי֞וּ · will be spread; יִֽהְיֽוּ׃ · They will be
    Those slain by the LORD on that day will be spread from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, gathered, or buried. They will be like dung lying on the ground.
  30. Jeremiah 25:38הָיְתָ֤ה · has been made
    He has left His den like a lion, for their land has been made a desolation by the sword of the oppressor, and because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
  31. Jeremiah 26:1הָיָה֙ · came
    At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:
  32. Jeremiah 26:8וַיְהִ֣י׀ · and as soon as
    …and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
  33. Jeremiah 26:9יִֽהְיֶה֙ · will become
    How dare you prophesy in the name of the LORD that this house will become like Shiloh and this city will be desolate and deserted!” And all the people assembled against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.
  34. Jeremiah 26:18הָיָ֣ה; תִּֽהְיֶ֔ה · will become
    “Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.’
  35. Jeremiah 26:20הָיָ֤ה · Now there was
    Now there was another man prophesying in the name of the LORD, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim. He prophesied against this city and against this land the same things that Jeremiah did.
  36. Jeremiah 26:24הָיְתָ֖ה
    Nevertheless, Ahikam son of Shaphan supported Jeremiah, so he was not handed over to the people to be put to death.
  37. Jeremiah 27:1הָיָ֞ה · came
    At the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD.
  38. Jeremiah 27:8וְהָיָ֨ה
    As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.
  39. Jeremiah 27:17תִֽהְיֶ֛ה · become
    Do not listen to them. Serve the king of Babylon and live! Why should this city become a ruin?
  40. Jeremiah 27:22יִֽהְי֑וּ · and will remain
    ‘They will be carried to Babylon and will remain there until the day I attend to them again,’ declares the LORD. ‘Then I will bring them back and restore them to this place.’”
  41. Jeremiah 28:1וַיְהִ֣י׀
    In the fifth month of that same year, the fourth year, near the beginning of the reign of King Zedekiah of Judah, the prophet Hananiah son of Azzur, who was from Gibeon, said to me in the house of the LORD in the presence of the priests and all the people:
  42. Jeremiah 28:8הָי֧וּ · preceded
    The prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.
  43. Jeremiah 28:12וַיְהִ֥י · came
    But shortly after Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke off his neck, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  44. Jeremiah 29:7יִהְיֶ֥ה
    Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
  45. Jeremiah 29:26לִֽהְי֤וֹת · to be
    ‘The LORD has appointed you priest in place of Jehoiada, to be the chief officer in the house of the LORD, responsible for any madman who acts like a prophet—you must put him in stocks and neck irons.
  46. Jeremiah 29:30וַֽיְהִי֙ · came
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: