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The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon

 Strong's Number:  1961 encodedOriginalWord
Original WordWord Origin
 היה  a primitive root [compare (01933)]
Transliterated WordPhonetic Spelling
 hayah haw-yaw
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Parts of SpeechTWOT
 Verb 491
 Definition
  to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out
  1. (Qal)
    1. to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass
    2. to come about, come to pass
    3. to come into being, become
    4. to arise, appear, come
    5. to become
    6. to become
    7. to become like
    8. to be instituted, be established
    9. to be
    10. to exist, be in existence
    11. to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)
    12. to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)
    13. to accompany, be with
  2. (Niphal)
    1. to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about
    2. to be done, be finished, be gone
 Translated Words
 KJV (75) - become, ; better for thee, 75; came, ; come to pass, ; has been, ; pertained, ; was, ; were happened, ;

NAS (1249) - act, 1; administered, 1; allotted, 1; am, 13; appeared, 1; apply, 1; became, 1; became his and lived, 1; become, 221; becomes, 13; becoming, 1; been, 90; been done, 2; befall, 1; befallen, 2; being, 7; belong, 9; belonged, 4; belongs, 2; brought, 1; came, 358; came expressly, 1; came into being, 1; cause, 1; caused, 1; come, 86; come to pass, 3; comes, 2; comes to pass, 1; committed, 1; consists, 1; continue, 6; continued, 3; correspond, 1; decided, 1; done, 1; ended, 13; endure, 3; event, 1; exhausted, 1; existed, 3; exists, 2; extend, 3; extended, 3; fall, 4; fallen, 1; fared, 1; fell, 1; follow, 1; followed, 1; form, 1; gave, 1; give, 1; go, 4; gone, 1; grown, 1; had, 80; had been, 1; had belonged, 1; had not been, 2; had...been, 2; happen, 11; happened, 48; happens, 4; has, 19; has become, 1; has had, 1; have, 90; have become, 6; have...place, 1; having, 2; held, 1; help, 1; indeed, 1; keep, 1; lasted, 1; lasts, 1; lay, 2; left, 2; lies, 1; lived, 1; lives, 1; made, 3; marry, 4; marrying, 1; numbered, 1; occur, 7; occurred, 3; occurs, 3; own, 3; placed, 1; possessed, 1; present, 1; pressed, 1; qualify, 2; ran, 1; reach, 3; reached, 1; realized, 1; receive, 1; received, 1; remain, 1; remained, 1; remains, 1; rest, 1; rested, 1; resulted, 1; running, 1; seemed, 1; serve, 3; show, 1; sold, 1; surely become, 1; surely come, 1; surely come to pass, 1; sustains, 1; take, 1; take place, 3; taken, 1; taken place, 1; time, 1; took place, 4; turn, 1; turned, 4; use, 1; used, 3; waited, 1; wear, 1; went, 1;

 Verse Count
KJVNAS
 
Genesis17
Exodus10
Leviticus2
Numbers3
Deuteronomy2
Joshua1
Judges6
1 Samuel4
2 Samuel4
1 Kings4
2 Chronicles1
Nehemiah1
Psalms1
Proverbs1
Isaiah1
Jeremiah3
Ezekiel5
Daniel3
Hosea1
Joel1
Zechariah1
 
Genesis110
Exodus77
Leviticus51
Numbers54
Deuteronomy55
Joshua62
Judges48
Ruth9
1 Samuel63
2 Samuel54
1 Kings68
2 Kings34
1 Chronicles39
2 Chronicles40
Ezra2
Nehemiah7
Esther4
Job17
Psalms44
Proverbs3
Ecclesiastes19
Song of Solomon2
Isaiah75
Jeremiah132
Lamentations16
Ezekiel128
Daniel9
Hosea12
Joel6
Amos4
Obadiah1
Jonah4
Micah8
Nahum1
Habakkuk2
Zephaniah6
Haggai6
Zechariah22
Malachi1
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Abbreviations Legend:
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament

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NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries. Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation. All rights reserved. http://www.lockman.org/.

Bibliography Information
Brown, Driver, Briggs and Gesenius. "Hebrew Lexicon entry for Hayah". "The Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon".
<http://www.searchgodsword.org/lex/heb/view.cgi?number=1961>.  

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