yehi

Grammar

Word: יהי
Representation: YHY
Transliteration: Yehi
Verb: "it/he/there will be"
Strong Concordance: H1961

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Exposition

This is a future-tense single-person form of the verb "to be". It can either be translated as "it will be" or "he will be" due to the gender-based Hebrew language where "it" can be a "he" or a "she". Sometimes I may use "there will be" as a better sounding form of "it will be".

If prefixed by the letter vav (ו) that has a patach (it looks like a small "T") beneath the vav, the combination creates what is called a "vav-conversive" and the tense is reversed, and so "it will be" becomes "it was".

All future forms: 

יהי - He will be

תהיה - You (masc.)/she will be

אהיה - I will be (the KJV mangles this to "I AM")

יהיו - They will be

תהיו - You (plural) will be

תהיי - You (fem.) will be