Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1961

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Original: היה

Transliteration: hayah (hâyâh)

Phonetic: haw-yaw

BDB Definition:

to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out
1. (Qal)
  1. -----
    1. to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass
    2. to come about, come to pass
  2. to come into being, become
    1. to arise, appear, come
    2. to become
      1. to become
      2. to become like
      3. to be instituted, be established
  3. to be
    1. to exist, be in existence
    2. to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)
    3. to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)
    4. to accompany, be with
2. (Niphal)
  1. to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about
  2. to be done, be finished, be gone

Origin: a primitive root [compare H1933]

TWOT entry: 491

Part(s) of speech: Verb

Strong's Definition: A primitive root (compare H1933); to exist, that is, be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): - beacon, X altogether, be (-come, accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), continue, do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, X use.

Occurrences in the (KJV) King James Version:

All Occurrences (73x)

Accomplished (1x)

All That Pertained (1x)

And Be (2x)

And It Came To Pass (1x)

And It Is Done (1x)

And It Shall Be (1x)

And It Shall Come To Pass (1x)

And It Was So (1x)

And Quit (1x)

And Shall Be Brought To Pass (1x)

And There Shall Be (2x)

And Thou Shalt Not Be (1x)

And Ye Shall Be (1x)

Art Become (1x)

As When There Was (1x)

Be (2x)

Be Thou (1x)

Brake (1x)

Came (1x)

Caused (1x)

Did (1x)

Done (2x)

Fainted (1x)

Fell (1x)

Had (2x)

Had Been (1x)

Happened To Us (1x)

Hath Been (1x)

How Was (1x)

I Am (1x)

Is (2x)

Is Committed (1x)

Is Done (1x)

Lasted (1x)

Let There Be (2x)

Required (1x)

Shall Be (6x)

Should Be (1x)

That I Am (1x)

That I Was Altogether (1x)

Them: That Thou Mayest Use (1x)

There Are (1x)

There Hath Not Been (1x)

There Was (1x)

This That Is Done (1x)

Thou Art Become (1x)

Thou Shalt Be (1x)

To Be (1x)

To You It Shall Be (1x)

To You: Quit (1x)

Unto Thee, Therefore Thou Art (1x)

Unto Thee; Be Not (1x)

Was (2x)

We Should Have Been (1x)

We Will Be (1x)

Were (1x)

What Is Done (1x)

Which Were (1x)

With Us, And Be To Us (1x)

You, And Will Be (1x)

All Occurrences

Joshua 22:20

Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

Judges 12:2

And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.

Judges 14:17

And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.(f)

Judges 18:19

And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

Judges 19:30

And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.

Judges 20:3

(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

Judges 20:12

And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

1 Samuel 2:11

And Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the priest.

1 Samuel 4:9

Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.(f)

1 Samuel 6:9

And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth–shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.(d)

1 Samuel 21:8

And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.

2 Samuel 4:2

And Saul’s son had two men that were captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon a Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin: (for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin:(a)

2 Samuel 7:24

For thou hast confirmed to thyself thy people Israel to be a people unto thee for ever: and thou, Lord , art become their God.

2 Samuel 9:9

Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said unto him, I have given unto thy master’s son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house.

1 Kings 1:27

Is this thing done by my lord the king, and thou hast not shewed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord the king after him?

1 Kings 12:24

Thus saith the Lord , Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the Lord , and returned to depart, according to the word of the Lord .

1 Kings 20:6

Yet I will send my servants unto thee to morrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants; and it shall be, that whatsoever is pleasant in thine eyes, they shall put it in their hand, and take it away.(a)

2 Chronicles 11:4

Thus saith the Lord , Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words of the Lord , and returned from going against Jeroboam.

Nehemiah 6:8

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

Psalm 50:21

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Proverbs 13:19

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Isaiah 1:9

Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 5:30

A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;(f)

Jeremiah 48:6

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.(e)

Jeremiah 48:19

O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?(i)

Ezekiel 2:8

But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give thee.

Ezekiel 16:34

And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary.

Ezekiel 20:32

And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

Ezekiel 21:7

And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord God .(a)

Ezekiel 39:8

Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord God ; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

Daniel 2:1

And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

Daniel 8:27

And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.

Daniel 12:1

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

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Brown-Driver-Brigg's Information

All of the original Hebrew and Aramaic words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. In some cases more than one form of the word — such as the masculine and feminine forms of a noun — may be listed.

Each entry is a Hebrew word, unless it is designated as Aramaic. Immediately after each word is given its equivalent in English letters, according to a system of transliteration. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament (TWOT), by R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., and Bruce K. Waltke. This section makes an association between the unique number used by TWOT with the Strong's number.

Thayers Information

All of the original Greek words are arranged by the numbering system from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible. The Strong's numbering system arranges most Greek words by their alphabetical order. This renders reference easy without recourse to the Greek characters. In some cases more than one form of the word - such as the masculine, feminine, and neuter forms of a noun - may be listed.

Immediately after each word is given its exact equivalent in English letters, according to the system of transliteration laid down in the scheme here following. Then follows the phonetic. Next follows the Thayer's Definitions given in English.

Then ensues a reference to the same word as found in the ten-volume Theological Dictionary of the New Testament (TDNT), edited by Gerhard Kittel. Both volume and page numbers cite where the word may be found.

The presence of an asterisk indicates that the corresponding entry in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament may appear in a different form than that displayed in Thayers' Greek Definitions.

Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries Information

Dictionaries of Hebrew and Greek Words taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890.

Strong's Concor­dance

Hebrew-Aramaic H1961

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Hebrew-Aramaic
H1961