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H1961הָיָהha.yah

to bePart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 316
  2. 235
  3. 147
  4. 180
  5. 171
  6. 145
  7. 122
  8. 21
  9. 168
  10. 153
  11. 197
  12. 120
  13. 105
  14. 133
  15. 5
  16. 48
  17. 17
  18. 50
  19. 104
  20. 28
  21. 47
  22. 4
  23. 211
  24. 264
  25. 23
  26. 337
  27. 23
  28. 27
  29. 11
  30. 10
  31. 7
  32. 10
  33. 19
  34. 3
  35. 3
  36. 11
  37. 9
  38. 67
  39. 11

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3,562 occurrences in 3,133 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. 1 Kings 13:31

    And when he had put it to rest, he said to his sons, When I am dead, then you are to put my body into the earth with the body of this man of God, and put me by his bones so that my bones may be kept safe with his bones.

    וַיְהִי֮ (יְהִי֮) y.Hi “it was”

  2. 1 Kings 13:32

    For the outcry he made by the word of the Lord against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places in the towns of Samaria, will certainly come about.

    הָיֹ֨ה ha.Yoh “certainly <to happen>”יִהְיֶ֜ה yih.Yeh “it will happen”

  3. 1 Kings 13:33

    After this Jeroboam, not turning back from his evil ways, still made priests for his altars from among all the people; he made a priest of anyone desiring it, so that there might be priests of the high places.

    וִיהִ֖י (יהִ֖י) Hi “he may be”

  4. 1 Kings 13:34

    And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.

    וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it became”

  5. 1 Kings 14:3

    And take with you ten cakes of bread and dry cakes and a pot of honey, and go to him: he will give you word of what is to become of the child.

    יִּֽהְיֶ֖ה yih.Yeh “will it happen”

  6. 1 Kings 14:5

    And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman.

    וִיהִ֣י (יהִ֣י) Hi “it may be”

  7. 1 Kings 14:6

    Then Ahijah, hearing the sound of her footsteps coming in at the door, said, Come in, O wife of Jeroboam; why do you make yourself seem like another? for I am sent to you with bitter news.

    וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

  8. 1 Kings 14:8

    And took the kingdom away by force from the seed of David and gave it to you, you have not been like my servant David, who kept my orders, and was true to me with all his heart, doing only what was right in my eyes.

    הָיִ֜יתָ ha.Yi.ta “you have been”

  9. 1 Kings 14:9

    But you have done evil more than any before you, and have made for yourself other gods, and images of metal, moving me to wrath, and turning your back on me.

    הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they were”

  10. 1 Kings 14:24

    And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

    הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “he was”

  11. 1 Kings 14:25

    Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;

    וַיְהִ֛י (יְהִ֛י) y.Hi “it was”

  12. 1 Kings 14:28

    And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.

    וַיְהִ֛י (יְהִ֛י) y.Hi “it was”

  13. 1 Kings 14:30

    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.

    הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

  14. 1 Kings 15:3

    And he did the same sins which his father had done before him: his heart was not completely true to the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.

    הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “it was”

  15. 1 Kings 15:6 (not in Bible in Basic English)

    הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

  16. 1 Kings 15:7

    Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

    הָיְתָ֛ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

  17. 1 Kings 15:14

    The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.

    הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it was”

  18. 1 Kings 15:16

    Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

    הָיְתָ֜ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

  19. 1 Kings 15:21

    And Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and was living in Tirzah.

    וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

  20. 1 Kings 15:29

    And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shil

    וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

  21. 1 Kings 15:32

    And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

    הָיְתָ֜ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

  22. 1 Kings 16:1

    And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying,

    וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it came”

  23. 1 Kings 16:7

    And the Lord sent his word against Baasha and his family by the mouth of the prophet Jehu, the son of Hanani, because of all the evil he did in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of his hands, because he was like the family of Jeroboam

    הָיָה֩ ha.Yah “it came”לִהְי֖וֹת (הְי֖וֹת) h.Yot “be”

  24. 1 Kings 16:11

    And straight away when he became king and took his place on the seat of the kingdom, he put to death all the family of Baasha: not one male child of his relations or his friends kept his life.

    וַיְהִ֨י (יְהִ֨י) y.Hi “it was”

  25. 1 Kings 16:18

    And when Zimri saw that the town was taken, he went into the inner room of the king's house, and burning the house over his head, came to his end,

    וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”