hava · be, become

What it means

hava (הָוָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be, become”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To exist or be in a certain state; to come to be something.
2. Come down, like snow.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Be ×3
• Fall ×1
• are to become ×1
• there ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 27:29

  May peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be master over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. Cursed be those who curse you, and blessed be those who bless you.”

• Nehemiah 6:6

  In it was written, “Among the nations it has been heard, and Gashmu says it: you and the Jews are planning to rebel; therefore you are building the wall; and you are to become their king, according to these words.

• Job 37:6

  For to the snow he says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ and to the downpour of rain, and to the downpour of his mighty rains.

• Ecclesiastes 2:22

  For what is there for the man in all his toil and in the striving of his heart with which he toils under the sun?

• Ecclesiastes 11:3

  If the clouds are full of rain, on the earth they empty it; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.

• Isaiah 16:4

  Let my banished ones reside as aliens among you, Moab; be a hiding place for them from before the devastator. For the oppressor has come to an end, devastation has ceased, the tramplers have vanished from the land.