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H1961הָיָהha.yah
to bePart of speech: Hebrew Verb
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At that time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.
אֶֽהְיֶה֙ 'eh.Yeh “I will become”יִֽהְיוּ־ yih.yu- “they will become”
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first-born.
הָיִ֤יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I have become”
And they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow unto the goodness of the LORD, to the corn, and to the wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not
וְהָיְתָ֤ה (הָיְתָ֤ה) ha.ye.Tah “it will be”
And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down, and to overthrow and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them to build and to plant, saith the LORD.
וְהָיָ֞ה (הָיָ֞ה) ha.Yah “it will be”
But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the LORD, I will put My law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people;
וְהָיִ֤יתִי (הָיִ֤יתִי) ha.Yi.ti “I will become”יִֽהְיוּ־ yih.yu- “they will become”
If these ordinances depart from before Me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before Me for ever.
מִֽהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “being”
The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.
הָיָ֤ה ha.Yah “it came”
Now at that time the king of Babylon's army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
הָיָ֤ה ha.Yah “he was”
and he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I remember him, saith the LORD; though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?'
יִֽהְיֶ֔ה yih.Yeh “he will be”
And Jeremiah said: 'The word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it came”
behold the mounds, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what Thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold,
הָיָ֖ה ha.Yah “it has happened”
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying:
וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it came”
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done that which was evil in My sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked Me with the work of their hands, saith the LORD.
הָי֨וּ ha.Yu “they have been”
For this city hath been to Me a provocation of Mine anger and of My fury from the day that they built it even unto this day, that I should remove it from before My face;
הָ֤יְתָה Ha.ye.tah “it has been”
and they shall be My people, and I will be their God;
וְהָ֥יוּ (הָ֥יוּ) Ha.yu “they will become”אֶהְיֶ֥ה 'eh.Yeh “I will become”
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying:
וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “it came”
And this city shall be to Me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it
וְהָ֣יְתָה (הָ֣יְתָה) Ha.ye.tah “it will become”
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
יִֽהְיֶ֣ה׀ yih.Yeh “it will be”
And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying:
וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it came”
Thus saith the LORD: If ye can break My covenant with the day, and My covenant with the night, so that there should not be day and night in their season;
הֱי֥וֹת he.Yot “to be”
Then may also My covenant be broken with David My servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, My ministers.
מִהְיֽוֹת־ (הְיֽוֹת) h.yot- “belonging”
And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying:
וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it came”
'Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying: The two families which the LORD did choose, He hath cast them off? and they contemn My people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
מִֽהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “being”
The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the land of his dominion, and all the peoples, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying:
הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it came”
thou shalt die in peace; and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they make a burning for thee; and they shall lament thee: 'Ah lord!' for I have spoken the word, saith the LORD.
הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they were”