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.
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
Occurrences
3,561 total
- Genesis 47:20וַתְּהִ֥י · became Pharaoh’sSo Joseph acquired for Pharaoh all the land in Egypt; the Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields because the famine was so severe upon them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
- Genesis 47:24וְהָיָה֙; יִהְיֶ֣ה · will beAt harvest time, you are to give a fifth of it to Pharaoh, and four-fifths will be yours as seed for the field and food for yourselves and your households and children.”
- Genesis 47:25וְהָיִ֥ינוּ · and we will be“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
- Genesis 47:26הָיְתָ֖ה · belong toSo Joseph established a law that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh, and it is in effect in the land of Egypt to this day. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 47:28וַיְהִ֤י · wasAnd Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years, and the length of his life was 147 years.
- Genesis 48:1וַיְהִ֗יSome time later Joseph was told, “Your father is ill.” So he set out with his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Genesis 48:5יִֽהְיוּ־ · shall beAnd now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.
- Genesis 48:6יִהְי֑וּ · shall be yoursAny children born to you after them shall be yours, and they shall be called by the names of their brothers in the territory they inherit.
- Genesis 48:19יִֽהְיֶה־ · shall become; יִהְיֶ֥ה · shall becomeBut his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
- Genesis 48:21וְהָיָ֤ה · will beThen Israel said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.
- Genesis 49:15וַיְהִ֖י · and submittedHe saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
- Genesis 49:17יְהִי־ · will beHe will be a snake by the road, a viper in the path that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.
- Genesis 49:26תִּֽהְיֶ֙ין֙ · May they restThe blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.
- Genesis 50:9וַיְהִ֥י · and it wasChariots and horsemen alike went up with him, and it was an exceedingly large procession.
- Exodus 1:5וַֽיְהִ֗י · numbered; הָיָ֥ה · who wasThe descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all, including Joseph, who was already in Egypt.
- Exodus 1:10וְהָיָ֞ה · and ifCome, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
- Exodus 1:21וַיְהִ֕יAnd because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
- Exodus 2:10וַֽיְהִי־ · and he becameWhen the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
- Exodus 2:11וַיְהִ֣י׀One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
- Exodus 2:22הָיִ֔יתִי · I have becomeAnd she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- Exodus 2:23וַיְהִי֩After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
- Exodus 3:1הָיָ֥ה · wasMeanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
- Exodus 3:12אֶֽהְיֶ֣ה · be“I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”
- Exodus 3:14אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה · I AM; אֶֽהְיֶ֑ה · I AM; אֶֽהְיֶ֖ה · I AMGod said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
- Exodus 3:21וְהָיָה֙And I will grant this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you leave, you will not go away empty-handed.
- Exodus 4:3וַיְהִ֣י · and it became“Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it.
- Exodus 4:4וַיְהִ֥י · and it turned back“Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.
- Exodus 4:8וְהָיָה֙ · [And the LORD said,]And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.
- Exodus 4:9וְהָיָ֡ה · But; וְהָי֤וּ · Then; וְהָי֥וּ · will becomeBut if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”
- Exodus 4:12אֶֽהְיֶ֣ה · will help youNow go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.”
- Exodus 4:15אֶֽהְיֶ֤ה · will helpYou are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.
- Exodus 4:16וְהָ֤יָה · will be; יִֽהְיֶה־; תִּֽהְיֶה־ · and it will beHe will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and it will be as if you were God to him.
- Exodus 4:24וַיְהִ֥יNow at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
- Exodus 5:13בִּהְי֥וֹת · was providedThe taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
- Exodus 6:7וְהָיִ֥יתִי · and I will beI will take you as My own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
- Exodus 6:28וַיְהִ֗י · NowNow on the day that the LORD spoke to Moses in Egypt,
- Exodus 7:1יִהְיֶ֥ה · will beThe LORD answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.
- Exodus 7:9יְהִ֥י · [and] it {will} become“When Pharaoh tells you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ you are to say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a serpent.”
- Exodus 7:10וַיְהִ֥י · and it becameSo Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw his staff down before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.
- Exodus 7:12וַיִּהְי֖וּ · and it becameEach one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up the other staffs.
- Exodus 7:19וְיִֽהְיוּ־ · that they may becomeAnd the LORD said to Moses, “Tell Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers and canals and ponds and all the reservoirs—that they may become blood.’ There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in the vessels of wood and stone.”