Strong's #1961: hayah (pronounced haw-yaw)
a primitive root (compare 1933); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary):--beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
hâyâh
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root [compare H1933]
Usage:
This word is used 3502 times:
Exodus 25:20: "toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be."
Exodus 25:27: "Over against shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear"
Exodus 25:31: "his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of"
Exodus 25:36: "Their knops shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure"
Exodus 26:3: "The five shall be coupled together one to another; and other five"
Exodus 26:6: "the curtains together with the tacks: and it shall be one tabernacle."
Exodus 26:11: "the tacks into the loops, and couple the tent together, that it may be one."
Exodus 26:13: "on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over"
Exodus 26:24: " And they shall be beneath, and they shall be coupled together above"
Exodus 26:24: "And they shall be beneath, and they shall be coupled together above"
Exodus 26:24: "the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be"
Exodus 26:24: "one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners."
Exodus 26:25: " And they shall be boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets;"
Exodus 27:1: "cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits."
Exodus 27:2: "the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass."
Exodus 27:5: "of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar."
Exodus 27:7: "shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar,"
Exodus 28:7: " It shall have shoulder pieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together."
Exodus 28:8: "which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue,"
Exodus 28:16: "Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth"
Exodus 28:20: "a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their enclosings."
Exodus 28:21: "And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve,"
Exodus 28:21: "of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes."
Exodus 28:28: "the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod,"
Exodus 28:30: "the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in"
Exodus 28:32: " And there shall be in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work"
Exodus 28:32: "in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about"
Exodus 28:32: "the hole of it, as it were the hole of a habergeon, that it be not rent."
Exodus 28:35: " And it shall be Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto"
Exodus 28:37: "a blue lace, that it may be upon the miter; upon the forefront"
Exodus 28:37: "upon the forefront of the miter it shall be."
Exodus 28:38: " And it shall be Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity"
Exodus 28:38: "in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted"
Exodus 28:42: "their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:"
Exodus 28:43: " And they shall be Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle"
Exodus 29:9: "and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate"
Exodus 29:26: "and wave it for a wave offering before the LORD: and it shall be thy part."
Exodus 29:28: " And it shall be and his sons' by a statute forever from the children"
Exodus 29:28: "of Israel: for it is a heave offering: and it shall be a heave offering from"
Exodus 29:29: "And the holy of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to be consecrated"
Exodus 29:37: "for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever"
Exodus 29:45: "the children of Israel, and will be their God."
Exodus 30:2: "thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of"
Exodus 30:4: "thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear"
Exodus 30:12: "for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest"
Exodus 30:16: "it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel"
Exodus 30:21: "and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations."
Exodus 30:25: "compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be a holy anointing oil."
Exodus 30:29: "And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy."
Exodus 30:31: "of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations."
