H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And the king saith unto the Cushite, `Peace to the youth -- to Absalom?' And the Cushite saith, `Let them be -- as the youth -- the enemies of my lord the king, and all who have risen up against thee for evil.'

יִהְי֤וּ yih.Yu “let them be”

and the salvation on that day becometh mourning to all the people, for the people hath heard on that day, saying, `The king hath been grieved for his son.'

וַתְּהִ֨י (תְּהִ֨י) te.Hi “it became”

And it cometh to pass, all the people are contending through all the tribes of Israel, saying, `The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, yea, he himself delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he hath fled out of the land because of Absalom,

וַיְהִ֤י (יְהִ֤י) y.Hi “it was”

And king David sent unto Zadok and unto Abiathar the priests, saying, `Speak ye unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye last to bring back the king unto his house? (and the word of all Israel hath come unto the king, unto his house;)

תִֽהְיוּ֙ tih.Yu “will you be”

my brethren ye `are', my bone and my flesh ye `are', and why are ye last to bring back the king?

תִהְי֛וּ tih.Yu “will you be”

And to Amasa say ye, Art not thou my bone and my flesh? Thus doth God do to me, and thus He doth add, if thou art not head of the host before me all the days instead of Joab.'

תִּהְיֶ֧ה tih.Yeh “you will be”

And David saith, `What -- to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah, that ye are to me to-day for an adversary? to-day is any man put to death in Israel? for have I not known that to-day I `am' king over Israel?'

תִֽהְיוּ־ tih.yu- “you will become”

and it cometh to pass, when he hath come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king saith to him, `Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?'

וַיְהִ֛י (יְהִ֛י) y.Hi “it was”

for all the house of my father have been nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and thou dost set thy servant among those eating at thy table, and what right have I any more -- even to cry any more unto the king?'

הָיָ֜ה ha.Yah “it was”

A son of eighty years I `am' to-day; do I know between good and evil? doth thy servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? do I hearken any more to the voice of singers and songstresses? and why is thy servant any more for a burden unto my lord the king?

יִֽהְיֶ֨ה yih.Yeh “will he become”

And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, `Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have ye lightly esteemed us, that our word hath not been first to bring back our king?' And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “was it”

And David cometh in unto his house at Jerusalem, and the king taketh the ten women-concubines -- whom he had left to keep the house, and putteth them in a house of ward, and sustaineth them, and unto them he hath not gone in, and they are shut up unto the day of their death, in widowhood living.

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

and also, Ira the Jairite hath been minister to David.

הָיָ֥ה ha.Yah “he was”

And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, `For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.'

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

And again have the Philistines war with Israel, and David goeth down, and his servants with him, and they fight with the Philistines; and David is weary,

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

And it cometh to pass afterwards, that the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, then hath Sibbechai the Hushathite smitten Saph, who `is' among the children of the giant.

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

And the battle is again in Gob with the Philistines, and Elhanan son of Jaare-Oregim, the Beth-Lehemite, smiteth `a brother of' Goliath the Gittite, and the wood of his spear `is' like a beam of weavers.

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

And the battle is again in Gath, and there is a man of stature, and the fingers of his hands `are' six, and the toes of his feet `are' six, twenty and four in number, and he also hath been born to the giant,

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

They are before me in a day of my calamity, And Jehovah is my support,

וַיְהִ֧י (יְהִ֧י) y.Hi “he was”

And I am perfect before Him, And I keep myself from mine iniquity.

וָאֶהְיֶ֥ה (אֶהְיֶ֥ה) 'eh.Yeh “I was”

And after him `is' Shammah son of Agee the Hararite, and the Philistines are gathered into a company, and there is there a portion of the field full of lentiles, and the people hath fled from the presence of the Philistines,

וַתְּהִי־ (תְּהִי) te.hi- “it was”

Of the three is he not the honoured? and he becometh their head; and unto the `first' three he hath not come.

וַיְהִ֥י (יְהִ֥י) y.Hi “he became”

and Joab giveth the account of the inspection of the people unto the king, and Israel is eight hundred thousand men of valour, drawing sword, and the men of Judah five hundred thousand men.

וַתְּהִ֣י (תְּהִ֣י) te.Hi “it was”

And David riseth in the morning, and the word of Jehovah hath been unto Gad the prophet, seer of David, saying,

הָיָה֙ ha.Yah “it came”

And Gad cometh in unto David, and declareth to him, and saith to him, `Do seven years of famine come in to thee in thy land? or three months art thou fleeing before thine adversary -- and he pursuing thee? or are three days' pestilence in thy land? now, know and see what word I take back to Him sending me.'

הֱ֠יוֹת He.yot “to be”