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Word Study · Strong's H1961 · Hebrew

הָיָה

hayah

haw-yaw

Strong's 1890 spelling: hâyâh

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

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV 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.

  • 3,559
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 3 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 231
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 231

  • וַיְהִ֗י21
  • וַֽיְהִי־19
  • וַֽיְהִי־13
  • יִהְיֶ֣ה12
  • הָיָ֥ה10
  • וַיְהִ֤י10
  • וַיְהִ֥י9
  • וַיְהִ֕י9
  • וַיְהִ֣י9
  • וַיְהִ֣י׀8
  • הָיָ֖ה6
  • וְהָיָ֥ה6

and 219 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 122

  • and it was105
  • and it will be25
  • and they were21
  • it will be20
  • and he was18
  • it was18
  • and there was13
  • may it be13
  • and it will become11
  • they will be11
  • they were10
  • he was9

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 46

  • Hc/Vqw3ms144
  • Hc/Vqq3ms41
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular41
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular39
  • Hc/Vqw3mp22
  • verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular22
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person common plural22
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine plural19
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singular15
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singular14
  • Hc/Vqw3fs11
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular9
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • Hc/Vqw3ms · 144
  • Hc/Vqq3ms · 41
  • HVqp3ms · 41
  • HVqi3ms · 39
  • Hc/Vqw3mp · 22
  • HVqj3ms · 22
  • HVqp3cp · 22
  • HVqi3mp · 19
  • HVqp3fs · 15
  • HVqp1cs · 14
  • Hc/Vqw3fs · 11
  • HC/Vqj3ms · 9

The first 500 of 3,559, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis316 occurrences
Exodus82 occurrences
Psalms102 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).