H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

It happened after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”

There was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty [supplied: pieces] of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five [supplied: pieces] of silver.

וַיְהִ֨י (יְהִ֨י) y.Hi “it was”הֱי֤וֹת he.Yot “was”

As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, there cried a woman to him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “he was”

It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might this thing be? He said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.

הֲיִהְיֶ֖ה (יִהְיֶ֖ה) yih.Yeh “will it happen”

Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they were”

The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was [supplied: sold] for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.

וַיְהִ֨י (יְהִ֨י) y.Hi “it was”

It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”יִהְיֶה֙ yih.Yeh “it will be”

and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it:

הֲיִהְיֶ֖ה (יִהְיֶ֖ה) yih.Yeh “will it happen”

it happened even so to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.

וַיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “it happened”

It happened at the seven years' end, that the woman returned out of the land of the Philistines: and she went forth to cry to the king for her house and for her land.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

It happened, as he was telling the king how he had restored to life him who was dead, that behold, the woman, whose son he had restored to life, cried to the king for her house and for her land. Gehazi said, My lord, O king, this is the woman, and this is her son, whom Elisha restored to life.

וַ֠יְהִי (יְהִי) y.hi “he was”

It happened on the next day, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his place.

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

Thirty-two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “he was”

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

הָֽיְתָה־ ha.ye.tah- “she became”

Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.

וַֽיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “it was”

So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram was keeping Ramoth-gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “he had been”

It happened, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? He answered, What peace, so long as the prostitution of your mother Jezebel and her witchcraft abound?

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

and the body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel, so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

וְֽהָיְתָ֞ה (הָיְתָ֞ה) ha.yat “it will be”

It happened, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and killed them, even seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezreel.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

It happened in the morning, that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people, You are righteous: behold, I conspired against my master, and killed him; but who struck all these?

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

It happened, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and kill them; let none come forth. They struck them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

He was with her hid in the house of Yahweh six years. Athaliah reigned over the land.

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “he was”

You shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.

וִהְי֥וּ (הְי֥וּ) h.Yu “be”

Jehoiada made a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that they should be Yahweh's people; between the king also and the people.

לִהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “become”