H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And it cometh to pass, when their heart `is' glad, that they say, `Call for Samson, and he doth play before us;' and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he playeth before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

and Samson saith, `Let me die with the Philistines,' and he inclineth himself powerfully, and the house falleth on the princes, and on all the people who `are' in it, and the dead whom he hath put to death in his death are more than those whom he put to death in his life.

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

And there is a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, and his name `is' Micah,

וַֽיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “he was”

And he giveth back the money to his mother, and his mother taketh two hundred silverlings, and giveth them to a refiner, and he maketh them a graven image, and a molten image, and it is in the house of Micah.

וַיְהִ֖י (יְהִ֖י) y.Hi “it was”

As to the man Micah, he hath a house of gods, and he maketh an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrateth the hand of one of his sons, and he is to him for a priest;

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “he became”

And there is a young man of Beth-Lehem-Judah, of the family of Judah, and he `is' a Levite, and he `is' a sojourner there.

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “he was”

And Micah saith to him, `Dwell with me, and be to me for a father and for a priest, and I give to thee ten silverlings for the days, and a suit of garments, and thy sustenance;' and the Levite goeth `in'.

וֶֽהְיֵה־ (הְיֵה) h.yeh- “become”

And the Levite is willing to dwell with the man, and the young man is to him as one of his sons.

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “he was”

And Micah consecrateth the hand of the Levite, and the young man is to him for a priest, and he is in the house of Micah,

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

and Micah saith, `Now I have known that Jehovah doth good to me, for the Levite hath been to me for a priest.'

הָיָה־ ha.yah- “he has become”

And he saith unto them, `Thus and thus hath Micah done to me; and he hireth me, and I am to him for a priest.'

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

and they say to him, `Keep silent, lay thy hand on thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us for a father and for a priest: is it better thy being a priest to the house of one man, or thy being priest to a tribe and to a family in Israel?'

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

And they have taken that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and come in against Laish, against a people quiet and confident, and smite them by the mouth of the sword, and the city have burnt with fire,

הָיָה־ ha.yah- “he belonged”

And the sons of Dan raise up for themselves the graven image, and Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, he and his sons have been priests to the tribe of the Danite, till the day of the removal of `the people' of the land.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they were”

And they appoint for them the graven image of Micah, which he had made, all the days of the house of God being in Shiloh.

הֱי֥וֹת he.Yot “[the] being of”

And it cometh to pass, in those days, when there is no king in Israel, that there is a man a Levite, a sojourner in the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he taketh to him a wife, a concubine, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah;

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

and commit whoredom against him doth his concubine, and she goeth from him unto the house of her father, unto Beth-Lehem-Judah, and is there days -- four months.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “she was”

And it cometh to pass, on the fourth day, that they rise early in the morning, and he riseth to go, and the father of the young woman saith unto his son-in-law, `Support thy heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward ye go on.'

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

And it hath come to pass, every one who seeth hath said, `There hath not been -- yea, there hath not been seen like this, from the day of the coming up of the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt till this day; set your `heart' upon it, take counsel, and speak.'

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

And the sons of Benjamin hear that the sons of Israel have gone up to Mizpeh. And the sons of Israel say, `Speak ye, how hath this evil been?'

נִהְיְתָ֖ה nih.ye.Tah “did it occur”

And the tribes of Israel send men among all the tribes of Benjamin, saying, `What `is' this evil which hath been among you?

נִהְיְתָ֖ה nih.ye.Tah “it has happened”

And there was the appointed sign to the men of Israel with the ambush -- their causing to go up a great volume of smoke from the city.

הָיָ֛ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

And all those falling of Benjamin are twenty and five thousand men drawing sword, on that day -- the whole of these `are' men of valour;

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

and say, `Why, O Jehovah, God of Israel, hath this been in Israel -- to be lacking to-day, from Israel, one tribe?'

הָ֥יְתָה Ha.ye.tah “has it happened”

And it cometh to pass on the morrow, that the people rise early, and build there an altar, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”