H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And the king said to Cushi, Is the young man Absalom safe? And Cushi answered, May the enemies of my lord the king, and all that rise against thee to do thee hurt, be as that young man is.

יִהְי֤וּ yih.Yu “let them be”

And the victory that day was turned into mourning to all the people: for the people heard it said that day how the king was grieved for his son.

וַתְּהִ֨י (תְּהִ֨י) te.Hi “it became”

And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us from the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us from the hand of the Philistines; and now he hath fled out of the land for Absalom.

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak to the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.

תִֽהְיוּ֙ tih.Yu “will you be”

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: why then are ye the last to bring back the king?

תִהְי֛וּ tih.Yu “will you be”

And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

תִּהְיֶ֧ה tih.Yeh “you will be”

And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries to me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?

תִֽהְיוּ־ tih.yu- “you will become”

And it came to pass, when he had come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said to him, Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?

וַיְהִ֛י (יְהִ֛י) y.Hi “it was”

For all of my father's house were but dead men before my lord the king: yet didst thou set thy servant among them that ate at thy own table. What right therefore have I yet to cry any more to the king?

הָיָ֜ה ha.Yah “it was”

I am this day eighty years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing-men and singing-women? why then should thy servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?

יִֽהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “will he become”

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “was it”

And David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and fed them, but went not in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

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

And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

Moreover, the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines: and David became faint.

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

And it came to pass after this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines at Gob: then Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Saph, who was of the sons of the giant.

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

And there was again a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son of Jaareoregim, a Beth-lehemite, slew the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver's beam.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

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

They fell upon me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my support.

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “he was”

I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from my iniquity.

וָאֶהְיֶ֥ה (אֶהְיֶ֥ה) 'eh.Yeh “I was”

And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were collected into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentils: and the people fled from the Philistines.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

Was he not most honorable of three? therefore he was their captain: yet he attained not to the first three.

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “he became”

And Joab presented the sum of the number of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.

וַתְּהִ֣י (תְּהִ֣י) te.Hi “it was”

For when David had risen in the morning, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

הָיָה֙ ha.Yah “it came”

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come upon thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now consider, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

הֱ֠יוֹת He.yot “to be”