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:
Deuteronomy 13:9: "But him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards"
Deuteronomy 13:16: "thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built"
Deuteronomy 14:2: "thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all"
Deuteronomy 15:3: "thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;"
Deuteronomy 15:4: "Save there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless"
Deuteronomy 15:7: "If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates"
Deuteronomy 15:9: "Beware there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying,"
Deuteronomy 15:9: "unto the LORD against thee, and it be sin"
Deuteronomy 15:15: "And thou shalt remember thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 15:16: " And it shall be, he say unto thee, I will not go away from"
Deuteronomy 15:17: "and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant forever. And also unto thy maidservant"
Deuteronomy 15:21: "And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill"
Deuteronomy 16:12: "And thou shalt remember thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do"
Deuteronomy 16:15: "and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice."
Deuteronomy 17:1: "any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavoredness:"
Deuteronomy 17:7: "The hands shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all"
Deuteronomy 17:9: "and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show"
Deuteronomy 17:18: " And it shall be, upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy"
Deuteronomy 17:19: " And it shall be him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn"
Deuteronomy 18:1: "and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with"
Deuteronomy 18:2: " Therefore shall they have inheritance among their brethren: the LORD is their inheritance, as"
Deuteronomy 18:3: "And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from"
Deuteronomy 18:13: " Thou shalt be with the LORD thy God."
Deuteronomy 18:19: " And it shall come to pass, will not hearken unto my words which"
Deuteronomy 18:22: "in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that"
Deuteronomy 19:3: "giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither."
Deuteronomy 19:10: "giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon"
Deuteronomy 19:11: "But if hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against"
Deuteronomy 19:17: "the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;"
Deuteronomy 20:2: " And it shall be, unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto"
Deuteronomy 20:9: " And it shall be, have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains"
Deuteronomy 20:11: " And it shall be, it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people"
Deuteronomy 20:11: "it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be"
Deuteronomy 20:11: "that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve"
Deuteronomy 20:14: "and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take"
Deuteronomy 21:3: " And it shall be, which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city"
Deuteronomy 21:5: "controversy and every stroke be"
Deuteronomy 21:13: "that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife."
Deuteronomy 21:14: " And it shall be, thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all"
Deuteronomy 21:15: "If have two wives, one beloved, and another"
Deuteronomy 21:15: "and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:"
Deuteronomy 21:16: " Then it shall be, he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath,"
Deuteronomy 21:16: "to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make"
Deuteronomy 21:18: "If have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey"
Deuteronomy 21:22: "And if have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang"
Deuteronomy 22:2: "then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother"
Deuteronomy 22:5: "The woman wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on"
Deuteronomy 22:19: "upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away"
Deuteronomy 22:20: "But if thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found"
Deuteronomy 22:23: "If that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find"
