H1961–הָיָה–ha.yah

And they said much before me of the good he had done, and gave him accounts of my words. And Tobiah sent letters with the purpose of causing me fear.

הָי֤וּ ha.Yu “they were”הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they were”

Now when the building of the wall was complete and I had put up the doors, and the door-keepers and the music-makers and the Levites had been given their places,

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

And Ezra took the book, opening it before the eyes of all the people (for he was higher than the people); and when it was open, all the people got to their feet:

הָיָ֑ה ha.Yah “he was”

All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.

וַתְּהִ֥י (תְּהִ֥י) te.Hi “it was”

And the priest, the son of Aaron, is to be with the Levites, when the Levites take the tenths: and the Levites are to take a tenth of the tenths into the house of our God, to the rooms, into the store-house;

וְהָיָ֨ה (הָיָ֨ה) ha.Yah “he will be”

And in the days of Joiakim there were priests, heads of families: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

הָי֥וּ ha.Yu “they were”

So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.

וַיְהִ֖י (יְהִ֖י) y.Hi “it was”

Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lif

הָי֪וּ ha.Yu “people were”

But all this time I was not at Jerusalem: for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes, king of Babylon, I went to the king; and after some days, I got the king to let me go,

הָיִ֖יתִי ha.Yi.ti “I was”

And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath

וַיְהִ֡י (יְהִ֡י) y.Hi “it was”

And I gave the Levites orders to make themselves clean and come and keep the doors and make the Sabbath holy. Keep this in mind to my credit, O my God, and have mercy on me, for great is your mercy.

יִֽהְי֤וּ yih.Yu “they will be”

Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

הָיָ֨ה ha.Yah “he was”הָיָ֔ה ha.Yah “he was”

Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)

וַיְהִ֖י (יְהִ֖י) y.Hi “it was”

And sent letters to all the divisions of the kingdom, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs, saying that every man was to be the ruler in his house, and that this order was to be given

לִהְי֤וֹת (הְי֤וֹת) h.Yot “be”

Now there was a certain Jew in Shushan named Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

הָיָ֖ה ha.Yah “he was”

And he had been a father to Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother, and she was very beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter.

וַיְהִ֨י (יְהִ֨י) y.Hi “he was”

So when the order made by the king was publicly given out, and a number of girls had been placed in the care of Hegai in the king's house in Shushan, Esther was taken into the king's house and put in the care of Hegai, the keeper of the women.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh an

הֱי֨וֹת he.Yot “to be”

Now when the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And E

וַתְּהִ֤י (תְּהִ֤י) te.Hi “she was”

Esther had still said nothing of her family or her people, as Mordecai had given her orders; for Esther did what Mordecai said, as when she was living with him.

הָיְתָ֥ה ha.ye.Tah “she had done”

Now when they had said this to him day after day and he gave no attention, they let Haman have news of it, to see if Mordecai's behaviour would be overlooked: for he had said to them that he was a Jew.

וַיְהִ֗י (יְהִ֗י) y.Hi “it was”

A copy of the writing, to be made public in every part of the kingdom, was sent out to all the peoples, so that they might be ready when that day came.

לִהְי֥וֹת (הְי֥וֹת) h.Yot “be”

Now on the third day, Esther put on her queen's robes, and took her place in the inner room of the king's house, facing the king's house: and the king was seated on his high seat in the king's house, facing the doorway of the house.

וַיְהִ֣י׀ (יְהִ֣י) y.Hi “it was”

And when the king saw Esther the queen waiting in the inner room, looking kindly on her he put out the rod of gold in his hand to her. So Esther came near and put her fingers on the top of the rod.

וַיְהִי֩ (יְהִי֩) y.Hi “it was”

That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,

וַיִּהְי֥וּ (יִּהְי֥וּ) i.yih.Yu “they were”