H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may make sport for us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he made sport before them. They made him stand between the pillars;

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people that were in it. So the dead whom he slew at his death were more than those whom he had slain during his life.

וַיִּהְי֤וּ (יִּהְי֤וּ) i.yih.Yu “they were”

There was a man of the hill country of E'phraim, whose name was Micah.

וַֽיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “he was”

So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a graven image and a molten image; and it was in the house of Micah.

וַיְהִ֖י (יְהִ֖י) y.Hi “it was”

And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and installed one of his sons, who became his priest.

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “he became”

Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “he was”

And Micah said to him, "Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year, and a suit of apparel, and your living."

וֶֽהְיֵה־ (הְיֵה) h.yeh- “become”

And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and the young man became to him like one of his sons.

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “he was”

And Micah installed the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “he became”וַיְהִ֖י (יְהִ֖י) y.Hi “he was”

Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest."

הָיָה־ ha.yah- “he has become”

And he said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest."

וָאֱהִי־ (אֱהִי) 'e.hi- “I have become”

And they said to him, "Keep quiet, put your hand upon your mouth, and come with us, and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and family in Israel?"

וֶֽהְיֵה־ (הְיֵה) h.yeh- “become”הֱיוֹתְךָ֣ (הֱיוֹתְ) he.yot. “[is] being”הֱיוֹתְךָ֣ (הֱיוֹתְ) he.yot. “being”

And taking what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, the Danites came to La'ish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and burned the city with fire.

הָיָה־ ha.yah- “he belonged”

And the Danites set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they were”

So they set up Micah's graven image which he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.

הֱי֥וֹת he.Yot “[the] being of”

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of E'phraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “he was”

And his concubine became angry with him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “she was”

And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go; but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go."

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

And all who saw it said, "Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak."

וְהָיָ֣ה (הָיָ֣ה) ha.Yah “it was”נִהְיְתָ֤ה nih.ye.Tah “it has occurred”

(Now the Benjaminites heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, "Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?"

נִהְיְתָ֖ה nih.ye.Tah “did it occur”

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

נִהְיְתָ֖ה nih.ye.Tah “it has happened”

Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city

הָיָ֛ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

So all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword, all of them men of valor.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

And they said, "O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?"

הָ֥יְתָה Ha.ye.tah “has it happened”

And on the morrow the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”