H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, which he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

וַֽיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “it belonged”

For their wings were outstretched over the place where the ark was, covering the ark and its rods.

וַיִּהְי֤וּ (יִּהְי֤וּ) i.yih.Yu “they were”

The rods were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place before the inmost room; but they were not seen from outside; and there they are to this day.

וַֽיְהִי־ (יְהִי) y.hi- “it was”

Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had made themselves holy, not keeping to their divisions;

וַיְהִ֕י (יְהִ֕י) y.Hi “it was”

And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is go

וַיְהִ֣י (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it belonged”

From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;

לִהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “be”לִהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “be”

But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.

לִהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “be”לִהְי֖וֹת (הְי֖וֹת) h.Yot “be”

Now it was in the heart of my father David to put up a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.

וַיְהִ֕י (יְהִ֕י) y.Hi “it was”

But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:

הָיָה֙ ha.Yah “it was”הָיָ֖ה ha.Yah “it was”

That your eyes may be open to this house day and night, to this place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to give ear to the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

לִהְיוֹת֩ (הְיוֹת֩) h.yOt “be”

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

יִהְיֶ֥ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:

יִהְיֶ֣ה yih.Yeh “it will be”יִֽ֠הְיֶה Yih.yeh “it will be”יִהְיֶ֔ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

יִהְיֶה֙ yih.Yeh “it will belong”

Now, O my God, may your eyes be open and your ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

יִֽהְיוּ־ yih.yu- “let them be”

If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

יִהְיֶ֣ה yih.Yeh “it will be”

Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.

יִהְי֣וּ yih.Yu “they will be”

For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

לִהְיוֹת־ (הְיוֹת) h.yot- “be”וְהָי֨וּ (הָי֨וּ) ha.Yu “they will be”

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

הָיָ֣ה ha.Yah “it was”

Now at the end of twenty years, in which time Solomon had put up the house of the Lord and a house for himself,

וַיְהִ֞י (יְהִ֞י) y.Hi “it was”

And of Baalath, and all the store-towns which Solomon had, and the towns where he kept his war-carriages and his horse men, and everything which it was his pleasure to put up in Jerusalem and in Lebanon and in all the land under his rule.

הָי֣וּ ha.Yu “they belonged”

Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she ca

הָיָ֖ה ha.Yah “it was”

And the food at his table, and all his servants seated there, and those who were waiting on him in their places, and their robes, and his wine-servants and their robes, and the burned offerings which he made in the house of the Lord, there was no more sp

הָ֥יָה Ha.yah “it was”

Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be t

יְהִ֨י ye.Hi “may he be”

And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never had such spices been seen as the queen of Sheba gave to Solomon.

הָיָה֙ ha.Yah “it has been”

Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and sixty-six talents;

וַיְהִי֙ (יְהִי֙) y.Hi “it was”