H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you. They shall be male and female.

יִֽהְיֽוּ׃ Yih.Yu “they will be”

Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to you; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

וְהָיָ֥ה (הָיָ֥ה) ha.Yah “it will become”

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

הָיָ֔ה ha.Yah “<it> was”

It happened after the seven days, that the waters of the flood came on the earth.

וַֽיְהִ֖י (יְהִ֖י) y.Hi “it was”הָי֖וּ ha.Yu “they were”

The rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.

וַֽיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “it was”

The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

וַֽיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “it was”

The waters receded continually until the tenth month. In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

הָיוּ֙ ha.Yu “they were”

It happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made,

וַֽיְהִ֕י (יְהִ֕י) y.Hi “it was”

It happened in the six hundred first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth. Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked. He saw that the surface of the ground was dried.

וַֽ֠יְהִי (יְהִי) y.hi “it was”

The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything that the ground teems with, and all the fish of the sea are delivered into your hand.

יִֽהְיֶ֔ה yih.Yeh “<it> will be”

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As the green herb, I have given everything to you.

יִהְיֶ֖ה yih.Yeh “it will become”

I will establish my covenant with you; neither will all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither will there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “<it> will be”

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

וְהָֽיְתָה֙ (הָֽיְתָה֙) ha.ye.Tah “it will become”

It will happen, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow will be seen in the cloud,

וְהָיָ֕ה (הָיָ֕ה) ha.Yah “it will be”

and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

יִֽהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “<it> will become”

The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."

וְהָיְתָ֥ה (הָיְתָ֥ה) ha.ye.Tah “it will be”

The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Ham is the father of Canaan.

וַיִּֽהְי֣וּ (יִּֽהְי֣וּ) i.yih.Yu “they were”

He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers."

יִֽהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “he will be”

He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant.

וִיהִ֥י (יהִ֥י) Hi “let him be”

God enlarge Japheth, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant."

וִיהִ֥י (יהִ֥י) Hi “let him be”

All the days of Noah were nine hundred fifty years, then he died.

וַיִּֽהְיוּ֙ (יִּֽהְיוּ֙) i.yih.Yu “they were”

Cush became the father of Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

לִֽהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “be”

He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

וַתְּהִ֨י (תְּהִ֨י) te.Hi “it was”

The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as you go toward Gerar, to Gaza; as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, to Lasha.

וַֽיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”