H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?

תְּהִ֤י te.Hi “you be”

Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?

תְּהִ֣י te.Hi “you be”

Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.

הָי֖וּ ha.Yu “they are”

Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

שֶּׁהָיָ֑ה (הָיָ֑ה) ha.Yah “<it> has been”

No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

שֶּׁיִּֽהְיֶ֑ה (יִּֽהְיֶ֑ה) yih.Yeh “will it be”יִֽהְיֶ֔ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.

יִהְיֶה־ yih.yeh- “it will belong”

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

יִהְיֶ֣ה yih.Yeh “it will belong”

Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

יִהְי֥וּ yih.Yu “let them be”

The foolish are full of words; man has no knowledge of what will be; and who is able to say what will be after him?

שֶׁיִּֽהְיֶ֔ה (יִּֽהְיֶ֔ה) yih.Yeh “<it> will be”יִֽהְיֶה֙ yih.Yeh “it will be”

Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.

יִּהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “will it be”

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

יִהְי֖וּ yih.Yu “<they> will be”

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

כְּשֶׁהָיָ֑ה (הָיָ֑ה) ha.Yah “it was”

And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.

שֶׁהָיָ֥ה (הָיָ֥ה) ha.Yah “he was”

Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

אֶֽהְיֶה֙ 'eh.Yeh “will I be”

I said, Let me go up the palm-tree, and let me take its branches in my hands: your breasts will be as the fruit of the vine, and the smell of your breath like apples;

וְיִֽהְיוּ־ (יִֽהְיוּ) yih.yu- “may they be”

I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then was I in his eyes as one to whom good chance had come.

הָיִ֥יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I was”

Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.

הָיָ֤ה ha.Yah “it belonged”

If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.

הָיִ֔ינוּ ha.Yi.nu “we were”

Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they have become”

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

יִֽהְי֨וּ yih.Yu “they are”יִהְיֽוּ׃ yih.Yu “they will be”

The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

הָיְתָ֣ה ha.ye.Tah “it has become”

Your silver is no longer true metal, your wine is mixed with water.

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it has become”

For you will be like a tree whose leaves have become dry, and like a garden without water.

תִֽהְי֔וּ tih.Yu “you will be”

And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.

וְהָיָ֤ה (הָיָ֤ה) ha.Yah “he will become”

And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.

וְהָיָ֣ה׀ (הָיָ֣ה) ha.Yah “it will be”יִֽהְיֶ֜ה yih.Yeh “it will be”