H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

But I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, to make a search through your house and the houses of your people, and everything which is pleasing in your eyes they will take away in their hands.

וְהָיָה֙ (הָיָה֙) ha.Yah “it will be”

Now when this answer was given to Ben-hadad, he was drinking with the kings in the tents, and he said to his men, Take up your positions. So they put themselves in position for attacking the town.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

Then he got together the servants of all the chiefs who were over the divisions of the land, two hundred and thirty-two of them; and after them, he got together all the people, all the children of Israel, seven thousand.

וַיִּהְי֕וּ (יִּהְי֕וּ) i.yih.Yu “they were”

So, a year later, Ben-hadad got the Aramaeans together and went up to Aphek to make war on Israel.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

Now the two armies kept their positions facing one another for seven days. And on the seventh day the fight was started; and the children of Israel put to the sword a hundred thousand Aramaean footmen in one day.

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

And when the king went by, crying out to him he said, Your servant went out into the fight; and a man came out to me with another man and said, Keep this man: if by any chance he gets away, your life will be the price of his life, or you will have to giv

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “he was”וְהָיְתָ֤ה (הָיְתָ֤ה) ha.ye.Tah “it will be”

But while your servant was turning this way and that, he was gone. Then the king of Israel said to him, You are responsible; you have given the decision against yourself.

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “he was”

And he said to him, These are the words of the Lord: Because you have let go from your hands the man whom I had put to the curse, your life will be taken for his life, and your people for his people.

וְהָיְתָ֤ה (הָיְתָ֤ה) ha.ye.Tah “it will be”

Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”הָיָ֛ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

And Ahab said to Naboth, Give me your vine-garden so that I may have it for a garden of sweet plants, for it is near my house; and let me give you a better vine-garden in exchange, or, if it seems good to you, let me give you its value in money.

וִֽיהִי־ (יהִי) hi- “may it belong”

Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

So Ahab, hearing that Naboth was dead, went down to the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite to take it as his heritage.

וַיְהִ֛י (יְהִ֛י) y.Hi “it was”

And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it came”

(There was no one like Ahab, who gave himself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moved to it by Jezebel his wife.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “anyone was”

Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it came”

And it came about in the third year, that Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, came down to the king of Israel.

וַיְהִ֖י (יְהִ֖י) y.Hi “it was”

Now the servant who had gone to get Micaiah said to him, See now, all the prophets with one voice are saying good things to the king; so let your words be like theirs and say good things.

יְהִֽי־ ye.hi- “let it be”

And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.

וְהָיִ֙יתִי֙ (הָיִ֙יתִי֙) ha.Yi.ti “I will be”

So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.

וַיְהִ֡י (יְהִ֡י) y.Hi “it was”

And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.

הָיָ֧ה ha.Yah “he was”

So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.

הָ֥יָה Ha.yah “he belonged”

Now when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a great wind, Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

And when they had come to the other side, Elijah said to Elisha, Say what you would have me do for you before I am taken from you. And Elisha said, Be pleased to let a special measure of your spirit be on me.

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”וִֽיהִי־ (יהִי) hi- “may it be”