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
- Malachi 1:9הָ֣יְתָה · has come“But ask now for God’s favor. Will He be gracious? Since this has come from your hands, will He show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 2:4לִֽהְי֤וֹת · may continueThen you will know that I have sent you this commandment so that My covenant with Levi may continue,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 2:5הָיְתָ֣ה · was“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.
- Malachi 2:6הָיְתָ֣ה · wasTrue instruction was in his mouth, and nothing false was found on his lips. He walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many from iniquity.
- Malachi 3:3וְהָיוּ֙And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.
- Malachi 3:5וְהָיִ֣יתִי׀ · And I will be“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 3:10וִיהִ֥י · so that there may beBring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.
- Malachi 3:12תִהְי֤וּ · will be“Then all the nations will call you blessed, for you will be a land of delight,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 3:17וְהָ֣יוּ · They will be“They will be Mine,” says the LORD of Hosts, “on the day when I prepare My treasured possession. And I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.
- Malachi 4:1וְהָי֨וּ · [when]“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
- Malachi 4:3יִהְי֣וּ · they will beThen you will trample the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet on the day I am preparing,” says the LORD of Hosts.