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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

Renderings

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3,562 occurrences in 3,133 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. 1 Kings 13:31

    And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying: 'When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

    וַיְהִי֮ (יְהִי֮) y.Hi “it was”

  2. 1 Kings 13:32

    For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.'

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

  3. 1 Kings 13:33

    After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places; whosoever would, he consecrated him, that he might be one of the priests of the high places.

    וִיהִ֖י (יהִ֖י) Hi “he may be”

  4. 1 Kings 13:34

    And by this thing there was sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

    וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it became”

  5. 1 Kings 14:3

    And take with thee ten loaves, and biscuits, and a cruse of honey, and go to him; he will tell thee what shall become of the child.'

    יִּֽהְיֶ֖ה yih.Yeh “will it happen”

  6. 1 Kings 14:5

    Now the LORD had said unto Ahijah: 'Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to inquire of thee concerning her son; for he is sick; thus and thus shalt thou say unto her; for it will be, when she cometh in, that she will feign herself to be another woman.'

    וִיהִ֣י (יהִ֣י) Hi “it may be”

  7. 1 Kings 14:6

    And it was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said: 'Come in, thou wife of Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself to be another? for I am sent to thee with heavy tidings.

    וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

  8. 1 Kings 14:8

    and rent the kingdom away from the house of David, and gave it thee; and yet thou hast not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments, and who followed Me with all his heart, to do that only which was right in Mine eyes;

    הָיִ֜יתָ ha.Yi.ta “you have been”

  9. 1 Kings 14:9

    but hast done evil above all that were before thee, and hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke Me, and hast cast Me behind thy back;

    הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they were”

  10. 1 Kings 14:24

    and there were also sodomites in the land; they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.

    הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “he was”

  11. 1 Kings 14:25

    And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

    וַיְהִ֛י (יְהִ֛י) y.Hi “it was”

  12. 1 Kings 14:28

    And it was so, that as oft as the king went into the house of the LORD, the guard bore them, and brought them back into the guard-chamber.

    וַיְהִ֛י (יְהִ֛י) y.Hi “it was”

  13. 1 Kings 14:30

    And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

    הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

  14. 1 Kings 15:3

    And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; and his heart was not whole with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

    הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “it was”

  15. 1 Kings 15:6

    Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

    הָיְתָ֧ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

  16. 1 Kings 15:7

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

    הָיְתָ֛ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

  17. 1 Kings 15:14

    But the high places were not taken away; nevertheless the heart of Asa was whole with the LORD all his days.

    הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “it was”

  18. 1 Kings 15:16

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

    הָיְתָ֜ה ha.ye.Tah “it was”

  19. 1 Kings 15:21

    And it came to pass, when Baasa heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

    וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

  20. 1 Kings 15:29

    And it came to pass that, as soon as he was king, he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him; according unto the saying of the LORD, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Ahijah the Shilo

    וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

  21. 1 Kings 15:32

    And there was war between Asa and Baasa 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 the son of Hanani against Baasa, saying:

    וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it came”

  23. 1 Kings 16:7

    And moreover by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of the LORD against Baasa, and against his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him with the work of his hands, in being like the

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

  24. 1 Kings 16:11

    And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he smote all the house of Baasa; he left him not a single man-child, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

    וַיְהִ֨י (יְהִ֨י) y.Hi “it was”

  25. 1 Kings 16:18

    And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died;

    וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”