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ha.yah H1961

הָיָה (ha.yah) means “to be” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

הָיָה Hebrew · H1961 3,561 tagged occurrences in 3,132 verses

Pronunciation guide: haw-yaw Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1961

הָיָה · ha.yah · 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

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

a primitive root (compare H1933 (הָוָא)); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

KJV glosses: beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.

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How translators render H1961

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
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will be 205
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and 91
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vvv 25
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KJV rendering counts
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shall be 6
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Verses containing H1961

Page 26 of 63. 3132 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. 1 Samuel 17:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Your servant has killed lions and bears; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”

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  2. 1 Samuel 17:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    David added, “The LORD, who delivered me from the claws of the lion and the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” “Go,” said Saul, “and may the LORD be with you.”

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  3. 1 Samuel 17:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a boy, ruddy and handsome.

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  4. 1 Samuel 17:48 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As the Philistine started forward to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him.

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  5. 1 Samuel 18:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

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  6. 1 Samuel 18:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.

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  7. 1 Samuel 18:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

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  8. 1 Samuel 18:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The next day a spirit of distress sent from God came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the house while David played the harp as usual. Now Saul was holding a spear,

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  9. 1 Samuel 18:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with David but had departed from Saul.

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  10. 1 Samuel 18:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and he continued to prosper in all his ways, because the LORD was with him.

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  11. 1 Samuel 18:17 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

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  12. 1 Samuel 18:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel, that I should become the son-in-law of the king?”

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  13. 1 Samuel 18:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So when it was time to give Saul’s daughter Merab to David, she was given in marriage to Adriel of Meholah.

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  14. 1 Samuel 18:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”

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  15. 1 Samuel 18:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    he grew even more afraid of David. So from then on Saul was David’s enemy.

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  16. 1 Samuel 18:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.

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  17. 1 Samuel 19:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Jonathan summoned David and told him all these things. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul, and David was with Saul as before.

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  18. 1 Samuel 19:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him.

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  19. 1 Samuel 19:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,

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  20. 1 Samuel 19:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    he sent messengers to seize him. But when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, with Samuel leading them, the Spirit of God came upon them, and Saul’s messengers also began to prophesy.

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  21. 1 Samuel 19:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Saul went to Naioth in Ramah. But the Spirit of God came upon even Saul, and he walked along prophesying until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

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  22. 1 Samuel 20:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But if my father intends to bring evil on you, then may the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if I do not tell you and send you on your way in safety. May the LORD be with you, just as He has been with my father.

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  23. 1 Samuel 20:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.

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  24. 1 Samuel 20:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But on the day after the New Moon, the second day, David’s place was still empty, and Saul asked his son Jonathan, “Why hasn’t the son of Jesse come to the meal either yesterday or today?”

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  25. 1 Samuel 20:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a small boy was with him.

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  26. 1 Samuel 20:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for the two of us have sworn in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘May the LORD be a witness between you and me, and between your descendants and mine forever.’” Then David got up and departed, and Jonathan went back into the city.

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  27. 1 Samuel 21:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the bodies of the young men are holy even on common missions. How much more so today!”

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    Source alternate reference: 21.6

  28. 1 Samuel 21:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.

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    Source alternate reference: 21.7

  29. 1 Samuel 21:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then David asked Ahimelech, “Is there not a spear or sword on hand here? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s mission was urgent.”

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    Source alternate reference: 21.9

  30. 1 Samuel 22:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

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  31. 1 Samuel 22:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.

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  32. 1 Samuel 23:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    (Now Abiathar son of Ahimelech had brought the ephod with him when he fled to David at Keilah.)

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  33. 1 Samuel 23:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    saying, “Do not be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you. And you will be king over Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this is true.”

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  34. 1 Samuel 23:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

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  35. 1 Samuel 23:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”

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  36. 1 Samuel 23:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Saul was proceeding along one side of the mountain, and David and his men along the other side. Even though David was hurrying to get away, Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.

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  37. 1 Samuel 24:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After Saul had returned from pursuing the Philistines, he was told, “David is in the wilderness of En-gedi.”

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    Source alternate reference: 24.2

  38. 1 Samuel 24:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Afterward, David’s conscience was stricken because he had cut off the corner of Saul’s robe.

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    Source alternate reference: 24.6

  39. 1 Samuel 24:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    May the LORD judge between you and me, and may the LORD take vengeance on you, but my hand will never be against you.

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    Source alternate reference: 24.13

  40. 1 Samuel 24:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As the old proverb says, ‘Wickedness proceeds from the wicked.’ But my hand will never be against you.

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    Source alternate reference: 24.14

  41. 1 Samuel 24:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    May the LORD be our judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver me from your hand.”

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    Source alternate reference: 24.16

  42. 1 Samuel 24:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud

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    Source alternate reference: 24.17

  43. 1 Samuel 25:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.

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  44. 1 Samuel 25:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Now I hear that it is time for shearing. When your shepherds were with us, we did not harass them, and nothing of theirs was missing the whole time they were in Carmel.

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  45. 1 Samuel 25:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet these men were very good to us. When we were in the field, we were not harassed, and nothing of ours went missing the whole time we lived among them.

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  46. 1 Samuel 25:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    They were a wall around us, both day and night, the whole time we were herding our sheep near them.

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  47. 1 Samuel 25:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.

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  48. 1 Samuel 25:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, since the LORD has held you back from bloodshed and from avenging yourself with your own hand, may your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be like Nabal.

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  49. 1 Samuel 25:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And should someone pursue you and seek your life, then the life of my lord will be bound securely by the LORD your God in the bundle of the living. But He shall fling away the lives of your enemies like stones from a sling.

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  50. 1 Samuel 25:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the LORD has done for my lord all the good He promised, and when He has appointed you ruler over Israel,

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