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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 29:32יִהְיֶ֨ה · He will have
    …this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
  2. Jeremiah 30:1הָיָ֣ה · came
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
  3. Jeremiah 30:8וְהָיָה֩
    On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer will strangers enslave them.
  4. Jeremiah 30:16וְהָי֤וּ · will be plundered
    Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them—will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.
  5. Jeremiah 30:20וְהָי֤וּ · will be
    Their children will be as in days of old, and their congregation will be established before Me; and I will punish all their oppressors.
  6. Jeremiah 30:21וְהָיָ֨ה · will be
    Their leader will be one of their own, and their ruler will arise from their midst. And I will bring him near, and he will approach Me, for who would dare on his own to approach Me?” declares the LORD.
  7. Jeremiah 30:22וִהְיִ֥יתֶם · And you will be; אֶהְיֶ֥ה · will be
    “And you will be My people, and I will be your God.”
  8. Jeremiah 31:1אֶֽהְיֶה֙ · I will be; יִֽהְיוּ־ · will be
    “At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
  9. Jeremiah 31:9הָיִ֤יתִי · I am
    They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
  10. Jeremiah 31:12וְהָיְתָ֤ה · will be
    They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.
  11. Jeremiah 31:28וְהָיָ֞ה
    Just as I watched over them to uproot and tear down, to demolish, destroy, and bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the LORD.
  12. Jeremiah 31:33וְהָיִ֤יתִי · And I will be; יִֽהְיוּ־ · will be
    “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
  13. Jeremiah 31:36מִֽהְי֥וֹת · to be
    “Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
  14. Jeremiah 32:1הָיָ֤ה · came
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.
  15. Jeremiah 32:2הָיָ֤ה · was
    At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
  16. Jeremiah 32:5יִֽהְיֶ֔ה · he will stay
    He will take Zedekiah to Babylon, where he will stay until I attend to him, declares the LORD. If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed.’”
  17. Jeremiah 32:6הָיָ֥ה · came
    Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
  18. Jeremiah 32:24הָיָ֖ה · has happened
    See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see!
  19. Jeremiah 32:26וַיְהִי֙ · came
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  20. Jeremiah 32:30הָי֨וּ
    For the children of Israel and of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth; indeed, they have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands, declares the LORD.
  21. Jeremiah 32:31הָ֤יְתָה
    For this city has aroused My wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. Therefore I will remove it from My presence
  22. Jeremiah 32:38וְהָ֥יוּ · They will be; אֶהְיֶ֥ה · will be
    They will be My people, and I will be their God.
  23. Jeremiah 33:1וַיְהִ֧י · came
    While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
  24. Jeremiah 33:9וְהָ֣יְתָה · So [this city] will bring
    So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
  25. Jeremiah 33:12יִֽהְיֶ֣ה׀ · be
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.
  26. Jeremiah 33:19וַֽיְהִי֙ · came
    And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  27. Jeremiah 33:20הֱי֥וֹת · to occupy
    “This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
  28. Jeremiah 33:21מִהְיֽוֹת־ · so that [David] will not have
    …then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
  29. Jeremiah 33:23וַֽיְהִי֙ · came
    Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  30. Jeremiah 33:24מִֽהְי֥וֹת · regard them
    “Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
  31. Jeremiah 34:1הָיָ֥ה · came
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.
  32. Jeremiah 34:5הָי֣וּ · preceded
    …you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”
  33. Jeremiah 34:8הָיָ֥ה · came
    After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
  34. Jeremiah 34:12וַיְהִ֤י · came
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
  35. Jeremiah 34:16לִֽהְי֣וֹת · to be
    But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.
  36. Jeremiah 34:20וְהָיְתָ֤ה · will become
    I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who seek their lives. Their corpses will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth.
  37. Jeremiah 35:1הָיָ֥ה · came
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
  38. Jeremiah 35:7יִֽהְיֶ֖ה · Those things are
    Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
  39. Jeremiah 35:9יִֽהְיֶה־ · and we have not owned
    Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.
  40. Jeremiah 35:11וַיְהִ֗י · So when
    So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
  41. Jeremiah 35:12וַֽיְהִי֙ · came
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  42. Jeremiah 36:1וַֽיְהִי֙ · came; הָיָ֞ה
    In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
  43. Jeremiah 36:9וַיְהִ֣י · Now
    Now in the ninth month of the fifth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, a fast before the LORD was proclaimed to all the people of Jerusalem and all who had come there from the cities of Judah.
  44. Jeremiah 36:16וַיְהִ֗י
    When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”
  45. Jeremiah 36:23וַיְהִ֣י׀ · And
    And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.