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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 48:27הָיָ֤ה · Was
    Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
  2. Jeremiah 48:28וִֽהְי֣וּ · Be
    Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
  3. Jeremiah 48:34יִהְיֽוּ׃
    There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices to Jahaz, from Zoar to Horonaim and Eglath-shelishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have dried up.
  4. Jeremiah 48:39וְהָיָ֥ה · has become
    “How shattered it is! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! Moab has become an object of ridicule and horror to all those around him.”
  5. Jeremiah 48:41וְֽ֠הָיָה · will be
    Kirioth has been taken, and the strongholds seized. In that day the heart of Moab’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
  6. Jeremiah 49:2וְהָֽיְתָה֙ · It will become
    Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will sound the battle cry against Rabbah of the Ammonites. It will become a heap of ruins, and its villages will be burned. Then Israel will drive out their dispossessors, says the LORD.
  7. Jeremiah 49:13תִּֽהְיֶ֣ה · will become; תִהְיֶ֖ינָה · will be
    For by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
  8. Jeremiah 49:17וְהָיְתָ֥ה · will become
    “Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by will be appalled and will scoff at all her wounds.
  9. Jeremiah 49:22וְֽ֠הָיָה · will be
    Look! An eagle will soar and swoop down, spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s mighty men will be like the heart of a woman in labor.
  10. Jeremiah 49:32וְהָי֨וּ · will become
    Their camels will become plunder, and their large herds will be spoil. I will scatter to the wind in every direction those who shave their temples; I will bring calamity on them from all sides,” declares the LORD.
  11. Jeremiah 49:33וְהָיְתָ֨ה · will become
    “Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
  12. Jeremiah 49:34הָיָ֧ה · came
    This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.
  13. Jeremiah 49:36יִהְיֶ֣ה · be
    I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
  14. Jeremiah 49:39וְהָיָ֣ה׀ · Yet
    “Yet in the last days, I will restore Elam from captivity,” declares the LORD.
  15. Jeremiah 50:3יִהְיֶ֥ה
    For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
  16. Jeremiah 50:6הָיָה · are
    My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
  17. Jeremiah 50:8וִהְי֕וּ · be
    Flee from the midst of Babylon; depart from the land of the Chaldeans; be like the he-goats that lead the flock.
  18. Jeremiah 50:10וְהָיְתָ֥ה · will be
    Chaldea will be plundered; all who plunder her will have their fill,” declares the LORD.
  19. Jeremiah 50:13וְהָיְתָ֥ה · she will become
    Because of the wrath of the LORD, she will not be inhabited; she will become completely desolate. All who pass through Babylon will be horrified and will hiss at all her wounds.
  20. Jeremiah 50:23הָיְתָ֧ה · has become
    How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
  21. Jeremiah 50:26תְּהִי־ · leave
    Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.
  22. Jeremiah 50:29יְהִיָ֙־
    Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
  23. Jeremiah 50:37וְהָי֣וּ · and they will become
    A sword is against her horses and chariots and against all the foreigners in her midst, and they will become like women. A sword is against her treasuries, and they will be plundered.
  24. Jeremiah 51:2הָי֥וּ · they will come
    I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.
  25. Jeremiah 51:26תִּֽהְיֶ֖ה · you will become
    No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
  26. Jeremiah 51:30הָי֣וּ · they have become
    The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
  27. Jeremiah 51:37וְהָיְתָה֩ · will become
    Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
  28. Jeremiah 51:41הָיְתָ֧ה · has become
    How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
  29. Jeremiah 51:43הָי֤וּ · have become
    Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
  30. Jeremiah 51:62הֱיֽוֹת־; תִּֽהְיֶֽה׃ · it will be
    …and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
  31. Jeremiah 51:63וְהָיָה֙
    When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
  32. Jeremiah 52:3הָֽיְתָה֙ · [all this] happened
    For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  33. Jeremiah 52:4וַיְהִי֩ · So
    So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
  34. Jeremiah 52:6הָיָ֥ה · had
    By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
  35. Jeremiah 52:20הָיָ֣ה · was beyond measure
    As for the two pillars, the Sea, the twelve bronze bulls under it, and the movable stands that King Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the weight of the bronze from all these articles was beyond measure.
  36. Jeremiah 52:23וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ · [Each capital had]
    Each capital had ninety-six pomegranates on the sides, and a total of a hundred pomegranates were above the surrounding network.
  37. Jeremiah 52:25הָיָ֥ה · had been
    Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as seven trusted royal advisers. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
  38. Jeremiah 52:31וַיְהִי֩
    On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.
  39. Lamentations 1:1הָיְתָ֖ה · has become; הָיְתָ֖ה · has become
    How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
  40. Lamentations 1:2הָ֥יוּ · they have become
    She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
  41. Lamentations 1:5הָי֨וּ · have become
    Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.
  42. Lamentations 1:6הָי֣וּ · are
    All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.
  43. Lamentations 1:7הָי֖וּ · were hers
    In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.
  44. Lamentations 1:8הָיָ֑תָה · she has become
    Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
  45. Lamentations 1:11הָיִ֖יתִי · I have become
    All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
  46. Lamentations 1:16הָי֤וּ · are
    For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
  47. Lamentations 1:17הָיְתָ֧ה · has become
    Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.