הַיָּה (hayyâ) is a Hebrew noun meaning destruction. It appears 1 time in 1 book of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H1962).

Also rendered

• calamity

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 483b)

Root family 483: הָוָה hāwâ — I, fall. (ASV, RSV. So KJV, by confusion with hāwâ II see below, renders the verb as “be.”)

• הַוָּה hawwâ — desire
• הֹוָה hōwâ — ruin

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