{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H1961",
  "lemma": "הָיָה",
  "transliteration": "hâyâh",
  "definition": "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…",
  "occurrences": 3560,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:2",
      "text": "The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:3",
      "text": "God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:5",
      "text": "God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:6",
      "text": "God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:7",
      "text": "God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:8",
      "text": "God called the expanse “sky”. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:9",
      "text": "God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:11",
      "text": "God said, “Let the earth yield grass, herbs yielding seeds, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:13",
      "text": "There was evening and there was morning, a third day.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:14",
      "text": "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…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=14"
    }
  ],
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