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:
Leviticus 25:32: "of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time."
Leviticus 25:38: "of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan, and to be your God."
Leviticus 25:40: "But as a hired servant, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year"
Leviticus 25:44: "Both thy bondmen, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that"
Leviticus 25:45: "that are with you, which they begot in your land: and they shall be your possession."
Leviticus 25:48: "After that he may be redeemed again; one of his brethren may redeem"
Leviticus 25:50: "the year of jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time"
Leviticus 25:50: "according unto the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant shall it be with"
Leviticus 25:53: "And as a yearly shall he be with him: and the other shall not rule with rigor over"
Leviticus 26:12: "And I will walk you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people."
Leviticus 26:12: "you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people."
Leviticus 26:13: "brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be that ye should not be their bondmen;"
Leviticus 26:33: "a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste."
Leviticus 26:37: "as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before"
Leviticus 26:44: "And yet when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away,"
Leviticus 26:45: "out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I"
Leviticus 27:3: "And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto"
Leviticus 27:3: "from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty"
Leviticus 27:4: "be a female, then thy estimation shall be thirty shekels."
Leviticus 27:5: "even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male"
Leviticus 27:6: "even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five"
Leviticus 27:7: "and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen"
Leviticus 27:9: "that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy."
Leviticus 27:10: "beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy."
Leviticus 27:12: "as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be."
Leviticus 27:15: "part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be"
Leviticus 27:16: "some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: a homer"
Leviticus 27:21: "But the field, in the jubilee, shall be holy unto the LORD, as a field devoted;"
Leviticus 27:21: "as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest's."
Leviticus 27:25: "And all shall be according to the shekel of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be"
Leviticus 27:25: "of the sanctuary: twenty gerahs shall be the shekel."
Leviticus 27:32: "passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the LORD."
Leviticus 27:33: "he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed."
Numbers 1:4: "And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house"
Numbers 1:44: "being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers."
Numbers 1:45: " So were those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty"
Numbers 1:46: "Even all were six hundred thousand and three thousand"
Numbers 1:53: "round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation"
Numbers 3:4: "the LORD, in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children: and Eleazar and Ithamar"
Numbers 3:12: "the matrix among the children of Israel: therefore the Levites shall be"
Numbers 3:13: "both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the LORD."
Numbers 3:17: "And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari."
Numbers 3:43: "old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand"
Numbers 3:45: "instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD."
Numbers 4:7: "to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:"
Numbers 4:27: "of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites,"
Numbers 4:36: "And those that were numbered were two thousand seven hundred and fifty."
Numbers 4:40: "by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty."
Numbers 4:44: "Even those that were numbered were three thousand and two hundred."
Numbers 4:48: "Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore."
