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:
Joshua 11:20: "in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favor, but that"
Joshua 13:16: "And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river"
Joshua 13:23: "And the border of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance"
Joshua 13:25: "And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land"
Joshua 13:29: "inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh"
Joshua 13:30: "And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom"
Joshua 14:4: "For of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim:"
Joshua 14:9: "the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's forever,"
Joshua 14:14: "Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh"
Joshua 15:1: " This then was of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border"
Joshua 15:2: "And their south was from the shore of the salt sea, from"
Joshua 15:4: "of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south"
Joshua 15:4: "were at the sea: this shall be your south coast."
Joshua 15:7: "passed toward the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En-rogel:"
Joshua 15:18: " And it came to pass, unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field:"
Joshua 15:21: "toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,"
Joshua 16:3: "and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea."
Joshua 16:5: "of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was"
Joshua 16:5: "thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;"
Joshua 16:8: "westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance"
Joshua 17:1: " There was for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph;"
Joshua 17:1: "of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead"
Joshua 17:1: "was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan."
Joshua 17:2: " There was of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children"
Joshua 17:3: "of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but"
Joshua 17:6: "his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead."
Joshua 17:7: "And the coast was from Asher to Michmethah, that lieth before"
Joshua 17:8: "Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh"
Joshua 17:9: "also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:"
Joshua 17:10: "and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north,"
Joshua 17:11: "And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns,"
Joshua 17:13: " Yet it came to pass, the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites"
Joshua 17:17: "and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot"
Joshua 17:18: "But shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings"
Joshua 18:12: "And their border side was from Jordan; and the border went up"
Joshua 18:12: "and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven."
Joshua 18:14: "lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which"
Joshua 18:19: "northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt"
Joshua 18:21: "of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of Keziz,"
Joshua 19:1: "of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah."
Joshua 19:2: " And they had Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,"
Joshua 19:9: "for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children"
Joshua 19:10: "according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid:"
Joshua 19:14: "it on the north side to Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jipthah-el:"
Joshua 19:18: "And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,"
Joshua 19:22: "and Beth-shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities"
Joshua 19:25: "And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,"
Joshua 19:29: "turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:"
Joshua 19:33: "And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami,"
Joshua 19:33: "Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:"
