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 15:39: " And it shall be that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD,"
Numbers 15:40: "all my commandments, and be holy unto your God."
Numbers 15:41: "brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I"
Numbers 16:7: "them before the LORD tomorrow: and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose,"
Numbers 16:16: "unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before"
Numbers 16:31: " And it came to pass, of speaking all these words, that the ground"
Numbers 16:38: "they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel."
Numbers 16:40: "of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not"
Numbers 16:42: " And it came to pass, was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked"
Numbers 16:49: "Now they that died were fourteen thousand and seven hundred,"
Numbers 17:5: " And it shall come to pass, rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from"
Numbers 17:8: " And it came to pass, Moses went into the tabernacle of witness;"
Numbers 18:5: "of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar: that there be no wrath any more upon"
Numbers 18:9: "This shall be thine of the most holy things, reserved from the fire: every"
Numbers 18:10: "it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy"
Numbers 18:13: "in the land, which they shall bring unto the LORD, shall be thine; every one that is clean in thine house"
Numbers 18:14: "Every thing in Israel shall be"
Numbers 18:15: "unto the LORD, whether it be of men or beasts, shall be thine: nevertheless the firstborn of man"
Numbers 18:18: "And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are"
Numbers 18:18: "breast and as the right shoulder are"
Numbers 18:20: "Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I"
Numbers 19:9: "without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children"
Numbers 19:10: "and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth"
Numbers 19:13: "the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness"
Numbers 19:18: "and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that touched a bone,"
Numbers 19:21: " And it shall be statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes;"
Numbers 20:2: " And there was water for the congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against"
Numbers 21:8: "and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live."
Numbers 21:9: "and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten"
Numbers 22:41: " And it came to pass that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places"
Numbers 23:10: "the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!"
Numbers 24:2: "in his tents according to their tribes; and the spirit of God came upon"
Numbers 24:18: "And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel"
Numbers 24:18: "a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do"
Numbers 24:22: "Nevertheless shall be wasted, until Asshur"
Numbers 25:9: "And those that died were twenty and four thousand."
Numbers 25:13: " And he shall have after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because"
Numbers 26:1: " And it came to pass the plague, that the Lord spoke unto Moses and unto"
Numbers 26:7: "of the Reubenites: and they that were numbered of them were forty and three thousand and seven"
Numbers 26:10: "two hundred and fifty men: and they became a sign."
Numbers 26:20: "And the sons after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez,"
Numbers 26:21: "And the sons were; of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Hamul, the family"
Numbers 26:33: "And Zelophehad of Hepher had no sons, but"
Numbers 26:40: "And the sons were Ard and Naaman: of Ard, the family of the Ardites: and of Naaman,"
Numbers 26:62: "And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month"
Numbers 26:64: "But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered,"
Numbers 27:3: "in the wilderness, and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together"
Numbers 27:3: "but died in his own sin, and had no sons."
Numbers 27:11: "to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute"
Numbers 27:17: "may bring them in; that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no"
