H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And the king said to the Cushite, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And the Cushite said, The enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee for evil, be as that young man.

יִהְי֤וּ yih.Yu “let them be”

And the victory that day was [supplied: turned] into mourning for all the people; for the people heard say that day, The king is grieved for his son.

וַתְּהִ֨י (תְּהִ֨י) te.Hi “it became”

And all the people were at strife throughout the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land because of Absalom.

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, to his house.

תִֽהְיוּ֙ tih.Yu “will you be”

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bone and my flesh; and why will ye be the last to bring back the king?

תִהְי֛וּ tih.Yu “will you be”

And say to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually instead of Joab.

תִּהְיֶ֧ה tih.Yeh “you will be”

And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? Should there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

תִֽהְיוּ־ tih.yu- “you will become”

And as soon as Jerusalem came to meet the king, the king said to him, Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?

וַיְהִ֛י (יְהִ֛י) y.Hi “it was”

For all my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king; and thou didst set thy servant among them that eat at thine own table. What further right therefore have I? and for what should I cry any more to the king?

הָיָ֜ה ha.Yah “it was”

I am this day eighty years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat and what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? and why should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

יִֽהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “will he become”

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, I have ten parts in the king and I have also more right in David than thou; and why didst thou slight me? and was not my advice the first, to bring back my king? And the words of the men of Judah were harsher than the words of the men of Israel.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “was it”

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house of confinement and maintained them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up unto the day of their death, living in widowhood.

וַתִּהְיֶ֧ינָה (תִּהְיֶ֧ינָה) tih.Yei.nah “they were”

and Ira also, the Jairite, was David's chief ruler.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for [supplied: his] house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites.

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

And the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought with the Philistines. And David was exhausted.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it belonged”

And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines, at Gob; then Sibbechai the Hushathite smote Saph, who was of the children of Raphah.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

And there was again a battle at Gob with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, smote Goliath the Gittite; now the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

And there was again a battle, at Gath; and there was a man [supplied: there] of great stature, that had on each hand six fingers, and on each foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to Raphah.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “he was”

They encountered me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “he was”

And I was upright before him, And kept myself from mine iniquity.

וָאֶהְיֶ֥ה (אֶהְיֶ֥ה) 'eh.Yeh “I was”

And after him, Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite: the Philistines were gathered into a troop, and there was there a plot of ground full of lentils, and the people had fled before the Philistines;

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

Was he not most honourable of three? and he was their captain; but he did not attain to the [supplied: first] three.

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “he became”

And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king; and there were of Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

וַתְּהִ֣י (תְּהִ֣י) te.Hi “it was”

And when David arose in the morning, the word of Jehovah came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

הָיָה֙ ha.Yah “it came”

And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

הֱ֠יוֹת He.yot “to be”