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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
Rendering Count
will be 205
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was 149
be 108
and 91
were 61
will become 48
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and there was 29
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shall be 28
to be 28
now 27
vvv 25
there was 24
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KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
shall be 6
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was 2
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with us and be to us 1
you and will be 1

Verses containing H1961

Page 31 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 Kings 8:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    May Your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, toward the place of which You said, ‘My Name shall be there,’ so that You may hear the prayer that Your servant prays toward this place.

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  2. 1 Kings 8:35 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

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  3. 1 Kings 8:37 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

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  4. 1 Kings 8:38 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

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  5. 1 Kings 8:52 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    May Your eyes be open to the pleas of Your servant and of Your people Israel, and may You listen to them whenever they call to You.

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  6. 1 Kings 8:54 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.

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  7. 1 Kings 8:57 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He never leave us or forsake us.

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  8. 1 Kings 8:59 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And may these words with which I have made my petition before the LORD be near to the LORD our God day and night, so that He may uphold the cause of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,

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  9. 1 Kings 8:61 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments.”

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  10. 1 Kings 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now when Solomon had finished building the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and had achieved all that he had desired to do,

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  11. 1 Kings 9:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the LORD said to him: “I have heard your prayer and petition before Me. I have consecrated this temple, which you have built, by putting My Name there forever; My eyes and My heart will be there for all time.

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  12. 1 Kings 9:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples.

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  13. 1 Kings 9:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’

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  14. 1 Kings 9:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now at the end of the twenty years during which Solomon built these two houses, the house of the LORD and the royal palace,

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  15. 1 Kings 9:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

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  16. 1 Kings 10:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.

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  17. 1 Kings 10:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain.

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  18. 1 Kings 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.

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  19. 1 Kings 10:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.

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  20. 1 Kings 10:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Blessed be the LORD your God, who has delighted in you to set you on the throne of Israel. Because of the LORD’s eternal love for Israel, He has made you king to carry out justice and righteousness.”

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  21. 1 Kings 10:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The weight of gold that came to Solomon each year was 666 talents,

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  22. 1 Kings 10:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

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  23. 1 Kings 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.

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  24. 1 Kings 11:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

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  25. 1 Kings 11:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the LORD said to Solomon, “Because you have done this and have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

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  26. 1 Kings 11:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Earlier, when David was in Edom, Joab the commander of the army had gone to bury the dead and had struck down every male in Edom.

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  27. 1 Kings 11:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the sister of Tahpenes bore Hadad a son named Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there among the sons of Pharaoh.

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  28. 1 Kings 11:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and had gathered men to himself. When David killed the Zobaites, Rezon captained a band of raiders and went to Damascus, where they settled and gained control.

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  29. 1 Kings 11:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Rezon was Israel’s enemy throughout the days of Solomon, adding to the trouble caused by Hadad. So Rezon ruled over Aram with hostility toward Israel.

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  30. 1 Kings 11:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as he was going out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself in a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.

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  31. 1 Kings 11:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But one tribe will remain for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

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  32. 1 Kings 11:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will give one tribe to his son, so that My servant David will always have a lamp before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I chose to put My Name.

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  33. 1 Kings 11:37 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But as for you, I will take you, and you shall reign over all that your heart desires, and you will be king over Israel.

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  34. 1 Kings 11:38 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

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  35. 1 Kings 11:40 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Solomon therefore sought to kill Jeroboam. But Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt, to Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.

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  36. 1 Kings 12:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Jeroboam son of Nebat heard about this, he was still in Egypt where he had fled from King Solomon and had been living ever since.

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  37. 1 Kings 12:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.

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  38. 1 Kings 12:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

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  39. 1 Kings 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.

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  40. 1 Kings 12:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. Only the tribe of Judah followed the house of David.

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  41. 1 Kings 12:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the word of God came to Shemaiah the man of God:

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  42. 1 Kings 12:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that this is what the LORD says: ‘You are not to go up and fight against your brothers, the Israelites. Each of you must return home, for this is My doing.’” So they listened to the word of the LORD and turned back according to the word of the LORD.

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  43. 1 Kings 12:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And this thing became a sin; the people walked as far as Dan to worship before one of the calves.

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  44. 1 Kings 12:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Jeroboam also built shrines on the high places and appointed from every class of people priests who were not Levites.

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  45. 1 Kings 13:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.

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  46. 1 Kings 13:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the king responded to the man of God, “Intercede with the LORD your God and pray for me that my hand may be restored.” So the man of God interceded with the LORD, and the king’s hand was restored to him as it was before.

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  47. 1 Kings 13:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    While they were sitting at the table, the word of the LORD came to the prophet who had brought him back,

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  48. 1 Kings 13:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And after the man of God had finished eating and drinking, the old prophet who had brought him back saddled the donkey for him.

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  49. 1 Kings 13:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.

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  50. 1 Kings 13:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After he had buried him, the prophet said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the tomb where the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones,

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