H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And the king said to the Cushite, Is the young man Absalom safe? And the Cushite said in answer, May all the king's haters and those who do evil against the king, be as that young man is!

יִהְי֤וּ yih.Yu “let them be”

And the salvation of that day was changed to sorrow for all the people: for it was said to the people, The king is in bitter grief for his son.

וַתְּהִ֨י (תְּהִ֨י) te.Hi “it became”

And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of A

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?

תִֽהְיוּ֙ tih.Yu “will you be”

You are my brothers, my bone and my flesh; why are you the last to get the king back again?

תִהְי֛וּ tih.Yu “will you be”

And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!

תִּהְיֶ֧ה tih.Yeh “you will be”

And David said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah, that you put yourselves against me today? is it right for any man in Israel to be put to death today? for I am certain today that I am king in Israel.

תִֽהְיוּ־ tih.yu- “you will become”

Now when he had come from Jerusalem to see the king, the king said to him, Why did you not come with me, Mephibosheth?

וַיְהִ֛י (יְהִ֛י) y.Hi “it was”

For all my father's family were only dead men before my lord the king: and still you put your servant among those whose place is at the king's table. What right then have I to say anything more to the king?

הָיָ֜ה ha.Yah “it was”

I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?

יִֽהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “will he become”

And in answer to the men of Judah, the men of Israel said, We have ten parts in the king, and we are the first in order of birth: why did you make nothing of us? and were we not the first to make suggestions for getting the king back? And the words of th

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “was it”

And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death,

וַתִּהְיֶ֧ינָה (תִּהְיֶ֧ינָה) tih.Yei.nah “they were”

And in addition, Ira the Jairite was a priest to David.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it belonged”

Now after this there was war with the Philistines again at Gob, and Sibbecai the Hushathite put to death Saph, one of the offspring of the Rephaim.

וַֽיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

And again there was war with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan, the son of Jair the Beth-lehemite, put to death Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “he was”

They came on me in the day of my trouble: but the Lord was my support.

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “he was”

And I was upright before him, and I kept myself from sin.

וָאֶהְיֶ֥ה (אֶהְיֶ֥ה) 'eh.Yeh “I was”

After him was Shammah, the son of Ela the Hararite. And the Philistines came together in Lehi, where there was a bit of land full of seed; and the people went in flight from the Philistines.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

Was he not the noblest of the thirty? so he was made their captain: but he was not equal to the first three.

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “he became”

And Joab gave the king the number of all the people: there were in Israel eight hundred thousand fighting men able to take up arms; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

וַתְּהִ֣י (תְּהִ֣י) te.Hi “it was”

And David got up in the morning; now the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

הָיָה֙ ha.Yah “it came”

So Gad came to David, and gave him word of this and said to him, Are there to be three years when there is not enough food in your land? or will you go in flight from your haters for three months, while they go after you? or will you have three days of v

הֱ֠יוֹת He.yot “to be”