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:
Genesis 5:27: "And all of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine"
Genesis 5:31: "And all of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven"
Genesis 5:32: "And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begot"
Genesis 6:1: " And it came to pass, men began to multiply on the face of the earth,"
Genesis 6:3: "also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years."
Genesis 6:4: " There were in the earth in those days; and also after that,"
Genesis 6:9: "of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations,"
Genesis 6:19: "of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male"
Genesis 6:21: "that is eaten, and thou shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food"
Genesis 7:6: "old when the flood of waters was upon the earth."
Genesis 7:10: " And it came to pass days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth."
Genesis 7:10: "days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth."
Genesis 7:12: "And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights."
Genesis 7:17: "And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased,"
Genesis 8:5: "And the waters continually until the tenth month: in the tenth"
Genesis 8:6: " And it came to pass of forty days, that Noah opened"
Genesis 8:13: " And it came to pass hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month,"
Genesis 9:2: "And the fear of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon"
Genesis 9:3: "that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given"
Genesis 9:11: "by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth."
Genesis 9:13: "my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."
Genesis 9:14: " And it shall come to pass, a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:"
Genesis 9:15: "and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh."
Genesis 9:16: "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between"
Genesis 9:18: "that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham"
Genesis 9:25: "be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren."
Genesis 9:26: "God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."
Genesis 9:27: "in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant."
Genesis 9:29: "And all of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years:"
Genesis 10:8: "Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth."
Genesis 10:9: "He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore"
Genesis 10:10: "And the beginning was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land"
Genesis 10:19: "And the border was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto"
Genesis 10:30: "And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east."
Genesis 11:1: "And the whole was of one language, and of one speech."
Genesis 11:2: " And it came to pass, from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;"
Genesis 11:3: "brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had"
Genesis 11:3: "brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar."
Genesis 11:30: "But Sarai was barren; she had no child."
Genesis 11:32: "And the days were two hundred and five years: and Terah died"
Genesis 12:2: "nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:"
Genesis 12:10: " And there was in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there;"
Genesis 12:11: " And it came to pass, he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai"
Genesis 12:12: " Therefore it shall come to pass, the Egyptians shall see thee, that they shall say, This is his wife: and they will kill"
Genesis 12:14: " And it came to pass, was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman"
Genesis 12:16: "And he entreated Abram well and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants,"
Genesis 13:3: "unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between"
Genesis 13:5: "which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents."
Genesis 13:6: "together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell"
Genesis 13:7: " And there was between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's"
