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

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 1:29

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.(p)

(q)

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.(i)

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?(a)

Genesis 4:14

Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

Genesis 9:26

And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.(b)

Genesis 10:8

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Genesis 11:3

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.(d)

(e)

Genesis 13:3

And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Hai;

Genesis 13:8

And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.(a)

Genesis 15:1

After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

Genesis 24:60

And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate them.

Genesis 27:1

And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.

Genesis 31:5

And said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.

Genesis 34:10

And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

Genesis 41:40

Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.(j)

Exodus 3:14

And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

Exodus 5:13

And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.(b)

Exodus 8:22

And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the Lord in the midst of the earth.

Exodus 9:3

Behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

Exodus 11:6

And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.

Exodus 12:4

And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

Exodus 18:19

Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:

Exodus 19:15

And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

Exodus 25:15

The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

Leviticus 23:15

And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:

Leviticus 26:12

And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.

Numbers 10:2

Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.

Numbers 15:40

That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

Numbers 31:16

Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord .

Deuteronomy 4:32

For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

Deuteronomy 27:9

And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the Lord thy God.

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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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Strong's Concordance

Hebrew-Aramaic
H1961