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 22:29: "father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled"
Deuteronomy 23:7: "abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land."
Deuteronomy 23:10: "If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth"
Deuteronomy 23:10: "among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth"
Deuteronomy 23:11: " But it shall be, cometh on, he shall wash himself with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come"
Deuteronomy 23:12: " Thou shalt have also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:"
Deuteronomy 23:13: " And thou shalt have upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig"
Deuteronomy 23:13: "upon thy weapon; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt turn back"
Deuteronomy 23:14: "thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean"
Deuteronomy 23:17: " There shall be whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite"
Deuteronomy 23:21: "thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin"
Deuteronomy 23:22: "But if to vow, it shall be no sin"
Deuteronomy 24:1: "hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor"
Deuteronomy 24:2: "And when she is departed she may go and be another man's"
Deuteronomy 24:4: "not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled;"
Deuteronomy 24:5: "with any business: but he shall be free at home one year,"
Deuteronomy 24:13: "goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD"
Deuteronomy 24:15: "against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin"
Deuteronomy 24:18: "But thou shalt remember thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed"
Deuteronomy 24:19: "thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that"
Deuteronomy 24:20: "thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."
Deuteronomy 24:21: "thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."
Deuteronomy 24:22: "And thou shalt remember thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore"
Deuteronomy 25:1: "If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment,"
Deuteronomy 25:2: " And it shall be, the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten"
Deuteronomy 25:5: "the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother"
Deuteronomy 25:6: " And it shall be, which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother"
Deuteronomy 25:13: "Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small."
Deuteronomy 25:14: "Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small."
Deuteronomy 25:15: " But thou shalt have and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have:"
Deuteronomy 25:15: "a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in"
Deuteronomy 25:19: " Therefore it shall be, thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about,"
Deuteronomy 26:1: " And it shall be, thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 26:3: "the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto"
Deuteronomy 26:5: "and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great,"
Deuteronomy 26:17: "the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep"
Deuteronomy 26:18: "And the LORD thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised"
Deuteronomy 26:19: "in praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be a holy people unto the LORD thy God,"
Deuteronomy 27:2: " And it shall be when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land"
Deuteronomy 27:4: " Therefore it shall be Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones,"
Deuteronomy 27:9: "O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God."
Deuteronomy 28:1: " And it shall come to pass, thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe"
Deuteronomy 28:13: "thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be"
Deuteronomy 28:13: "above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto"
Deuteronomy 28:15: " But it shall come to pass, thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe"
Deuteronomy 28:23: "is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under"
Deuteronomy 28:25: "seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth."
Deuteronomy 28:26: "And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth,"
Deuteronomy 28:29: " And thou shalt at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not"
Deuteronomy 28:29: "prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore,"
