H1961 הָיָה
hâyâh — to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
KJV: beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause…
Occurs 3,560 times. Every verse with this word
Brown–Driver–Briggs
- הָיָה 3570 vb. fall out, come to pass, become, be
- Qal
- a Fall out, happen
- b occur, take place, come about, come to pass
- 2 esp. & very oft., come about, come to pass
- (1) וַיְהִי and it came to pass that, most often (c. 292 t.)
- (2) rarely also Pf. c. וְ conj. וְהָיָה
- b less oft. וְהָיָה Pf. consec. and it shall come to pass, or frequentat. came to pass (repeatedly, etc.)
- II Come into being, become
- a abs., in lively narrative, arise, appear, come
- b sq. prep.
- 2 become
- a sq. pred. noun (to be viewed as implicit accus.)
- b sq. pred. adj.
- c become like
- d sq. pred. לְ pers.
- e sq. לְ pred.
- f oft. c. לְ pred. לְ pers.
- g with עַל and לְ
- h sts. c. לְ pers. only = became the property of, come into the possession of
- III Be (often with subbordinate idea of becoming)
- 1 exist, be in existence
- 2 abide, remain, continue
- 3 with word of locality, be in or at a place, be situated, stand, lie
- 4 as copula, joining subj. & pred.
- 5 periphrastic conjug.
- Niph.
- 1 either be done, be brought about, or occur, come to pass
- 2 be done, finished, gone
Where it occurs
- Genesis 1:2 — The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…
- Genesis 1:3 — God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- Genesis 1:5 — God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.
- Genesis 1:6 — God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
- Genesis 1:7 — God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse…
- Genesis 1:8 — God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
- Genesis 1:9 — God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.
- Genesis 1:11 — God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their…
- Genesis 1:13 — There was evening and there was morning, a third day.
- Genesis 1:14 — God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to…