Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H1961: הָיָה

hâyâh · pronounced haw-yaw · “to be”

Definition

to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

KJV translates it as: beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.

Word origin: a primitive root (compare H1933 (הָוָא));

Extended definition

1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out
1a) (Qal)
1a1) ---
1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass
1a1b) to come about, come to pass
1a2) to come into being, become
1a2a) to arise, appear, come
1a2b) to become
1a2b1) to become
1a2b2) to become like
1a2b3) to be instituted, be established
1a3) to be
1a3a) to exist, be in existence
1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)
1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)
1a3d) to accompany, be with
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about
1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H1961 is translated

  • it was ×765
  • it will be ×586
  • they were ×181
  • he was ×156
  • it came ×139
  • they will be ×138
  • it will belong ×123
  • it will become ×98
  • it belonged ×80
  • he will be ×74
  • be ×64
  • they will become ×56

Bible verses with H1961 (hâyâh)

Hâyâh appears in 3,131 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • Genesis 1:2

    And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

  • Genesis 1:3

    And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

  • Genesis 1:5

    And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

  • Genesis 1:6

    And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

  • Genesis 1:7

    And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

  • Genesis 1:8

    And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

  • Genesis 1:9

    And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

  • Genesis 1:11

    And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

  • Genesis 1:13

    And the evening and the morning were the third day.

  • Genesis 1:14

    And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

  • Genesis 1:15

    And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

  • Genesis 1:19

    And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

  • Genesis 1:23

    And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

  • Genesis 1:24

    And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

  • Genesis 1:29

    And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

  • Genesis 1:30

    And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

  • Genesis 1:31

    And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

  • Genesis 2:5

    And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

  • Genesis 2:7

    And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

  • Genesis 2:10

    And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

  • Genesis 2:18

    And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

  • Genesis 2:24

    Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Genesis 2:25

    And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

  • Genesis 3:1

    Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

  • Genesis 3:5

    For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

All 3,131 references (first 400)

Words derived from H1961

הָוָא H1933

hâvâʼ — to fall

יְהֹוָה H3068

Yᵉhôvâh — LORD

יֵשׁ H3426

yêsh — there