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:
Numbers 5:9: "which they bring unto the priest, shall be"
Numbers 5:10: "And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest,"
Numbers 5:10: "any man giveth the priest, it shall be"
Numbers 5:17: "and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take,"
Numbers 5:18: "is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:"
Numbers 5:27: "And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass"
Numbers 5:27: "and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people."
Numbers 6:5: "in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head"
Numbers 7:1: " And it came to pass that Moses had fully set up the tabernacle, and had anointed"
Numbers 7:5: "Take them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle"
Numbers 7:12: "his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe"
Numbers 8:11: "of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service"
Numbers 8:14: "from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be"
Numbers 8:19: "and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: that there be no plague among the children"
Numbers 9:6: " And there were who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could"
Numbers 9:6: "And there were who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could"
Numbers 9:10: "any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or"
Numbers 9:13: "But the man is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep"
Numbers 9:14: "and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born"
Numbers 9:15: "namely, the tent of the testimony: and at even there was upon the tabernacle as it were the appearance of fire,"
Numbers 9:16: "So it was always: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night."
Numbers 9:20: "And so it was, the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle;"
Numbers 9:21: "And so it was, the cloud abode from even unto the morning,"
Numbers 10:2: "of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying"
Numbers 10:8: "the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your generations."
Numbers 10:10: "and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I"
Numbers 10:11: " And it came to pass day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up"
Numbers 10:31: "forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou mayest be to us instead of eyes."
Numbers 10:32: " And it shall be, thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD"
Numbers 10:32: "thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the LORD shall do"
Numbers 10:35: " And it came to pass, set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies"
Numbers 11:8: "and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil."
Numbers 11:20: "until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because"
Numbers 11:25: "it unto the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon"
Numbers 11:35: "from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth."
Numbers 12:6: "now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto"
Numbers 12:12: "Let be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed"
Numbers 13:33: "of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were"
Numbers 13:33: "in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."
Numbers 14:3: "by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? were it not better for us to return"
Numbers 14:24: "But my servant because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully,"
Numbers 14:31: "But your little ones, ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know"
Numbers 14:33: "And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear"
Numbers 14:43: "ye are turned away from the LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with"
Numbers 15:15: "forever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD."
Numbers 15:16: "and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with"
Numbers 15:19: " Then it shall be, of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up a heave offering unto the LORD."
Numbers 15:24: " Then it shall be, aught be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all"
Numbers 15:29: " Ye shall have law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel,"
Numbers 15:32: "And while the children were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks"
