Lexicon / H1961
הָיָה
ha.yah
  • to be
  • fall out
  • come to pass
  • become
  • be

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: to be

1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out

1a) (Qal)

1a1) ---

1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass

1a1b) to come about, come to pass

1a2) to come into being, become

1a2a) to arise, appear, come

1a2b) to become

1a2b1) to become

1a2b2) to become like

1a2b3) to be instituted, be established

1a3) to be

1a3a) to exist, be in existence

1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)

1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)

1a3d) to accompany, be with

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about

1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: fall out; come to pass; become; be

Root √היה: הָיָה vb fall out come to pass become be Qal Fall out happen , occur take place come about come to pass . come about come to pass וַיְהִי and it came to pass that, most often (c. 292 t.) וְ וְהָיָה rarely also Pf. c.conj. וְהָיָה and it shall come to pass came to pass less oft.Pf. consec. or frequentat.(repeatedly, etc.) esp. & very oft. Come into being become arise appear come abs. in lively narrative. sq. prep. become sq. pred. noun (to be viewed as implicit accus.) sq. pred. adj. become like לְ sq. pred.pers. לְ sq.pred. לְ לְ oft. c.pred.pers. עַל לְ withand לְ became the property of come into the possession of sts. c.pers. only =. Be exist be in existence , abide remain continue . be in at a place be situated stand lie with word of locality,or. as copula, joining subj. & pred. periphrastic conjug. (often with subbordinate idea of becoming) Niph be done be brought about occur come to pass either. or, be done finished gone . 3570.

הָיָה vb fall out come to pass become be Qal Fall out happen , occur take place come about come to pass . come about come to pass וַיְהִי and it came to pass that, most often (c. 292 t.) וְ וְהָיָה rarely also Pf. c.conj. וְהָיָה and it shall come to pass came to pass less oft.Pf. consec. or frequentat.(repeatedly, etc.) esp. & very oft. Come into being become arise appear come abs. in lively narrative. sq. prep. become sq. pred. noun (to be viewed as implicit accus.) sq. pred. adj. become like לְ sq. pred.pers. לְ sq.pred. לְ לְ oft. c.pred.pers. עַל לְ withand לְ became the property of come into the possession of sts. c.pers. only =. Be exist be in existence , abide remain continue . be in at a place be situated stand lie with word of locality,or. as copula, joining subj. & pred. periphrastic conjug. (often with subbordinate idea of becoming) Niph be done be brought about occur come to pass either. or, be done finished gone . 3570.