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  to be  Com. as an augmentative marker of tense and/or aspect  Com.   perfect w. active participle to mark progressivity or imperfectivity in the past  Com.  Dan2:34 : חָזֵה הֲוַיְתָ עַד דִּי הִתְגְּזֶרֶת אֶבֶן דִּי־לָא בִידַיִן‏  you were watching until a rock was cut off without (by means of) any hands.  GenApoc 21.17 : והוית אתה לי ליד ימא שמוקא‏  I was proceeding along the side of the Red (i.e. Arabian) Sea.  TgO Gen2:6 : וַעֲנָנָא הֲוָה סָלֵיק עַל אַרעָא וֻמַשקֵי יָת כָל אַפֵי אֲדַמתָא‏  the cloud would go up over the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.  PJ Gen3:7 : והוון חמיין בהתתהון וחטיטו להון מטרפי תינין‏  they were noticing their nakedness so they sewed themselves some fig leaves.   perfect, to mark perfectivity or irrealis  Com.  TgEsth² 6:1(12) : ואין קמית וסגדית ליה אש<ת>כחית הויתי פלח לטעוותא‏  had I stood and bowed down to him I would have been found to be a worshipper of false gods.   imperative with p.p. or adj.   OfA^Eg-informal, OfA^Eg, BA^Ezra.  Ezra4:22 : וּזְהִירִין הֱווֹ שָׁלוּ לְמֶעְבַּד עַל־דְּנָה‏  avoid making an error over this. to become  Com.  GT A Exod22:23 : וְיֶהֶוויַן נשֶיכוֹן אַרמלַן ובנֵיכוֹן יֶתמִין‏  your wives will become widows and your children orphans.   w. l_ : to change state, to turn into  Com^-OA-OfA.  Dan2:35 : וְאַבְנָא דִּי־מְחָת לְצַלְמָא הֲוָת לְטוּר רַב‏  the stone that struck the statue turned into a great mountain.  11QtgJob 37.8=42:6 : על כן אתנסך ואתמ^ה^א ואהוא לע֗פ֗ר֗‏  therefore I shall be poured out, amazed and turn to dust.  TgJ Ez37:23 : וַאֲנָא אַהוֵי לְהוֹן לַאֲלָה‏  while I shall become god for them.  TgPs69:12 : והוית להון למתלא‏  I became a watchword for them.

  to endure, to exist  Com. w. l_ : to possess : see s.v. l_ prep.  Com.

  to come to pass, to happen  Com. to come into existence  Com.  TgO Gen1:3 : וַאֲמַר יוי יְהֵי נְהוֹרָא וַהֲוָה נְהוֹרָא‏  the Lord said "let there be light," and there was light.

  in idioms:  Com.

  
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 160a; DJBA: 370b; Jastrow: 338; Levy Ch-W: 1:196; Tal Sam: 201; DNWSI: 271; DJA: 43a; Cook,Qumran: 62;

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