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 19:41: "And the coast was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,"
Joshua 20:3: "and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger"
Joshua 20:6: "of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer"
Joshua 20:9: "These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger"
Joshua 21:4: "the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah,"
Joshua 21:10: "being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was"
Joshua 21:10: "who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first lot."
Joshua 21:20: "which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe"
Joshua 21:40: "which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve"
Joshua 21:42: "These were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus"
Joshua 22:17: "until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,"
Joshua 22:18: "this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel today"
Joshua 22:20: "a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel?"
Joshua 22:28: "Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come,"
Joshua 23:1: " And it came to pass time after that the LORD had given rest"
Joshua 23:13: "any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps"
Joshua 23:15: " Therefore it shall come to pass, all good things are come upon you, which"
Joshua 24:27: "Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard"
Joshua 24:27: "which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God."
Joshua 24:29: " And it came to pass these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant"
Joshua 24:32: "of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children"
Judges 1:1: "Now after of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD,"
Judges 1:14: " And it came to pass, to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field:"
Judges 1:19: "And the LORD was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but"
Judges 1:28: " And it came to pass, Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute,"
Judges 1:30: "but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries."
Judges 1:33: "nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributaries"
Judges 1:35: "of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries."
Judges 2:3: "I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods"
Judges 2:3: "from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare"
Judges 2:4: " And it came to pass, of the LORD spoke these words unto"
Judges 2:15: "Whithersoever the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD"
Judges 2:18: "raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand"
Judges 2:19: " And it came to pass, was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following"
Judges 3:4: " And they were Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments"
Judges 3:10: "And the Spirit came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out"
Judges 3:27: " And it came to pass, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel"
Judges 3:31: "And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines"
Judges 4:9: "the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honor; for"
Judges 4:20: "her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire"
Judges 6:3: " And so it was, Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children"
Judges 6:7: " And it came to pass, the children of Israel cried unto the LORD because of"
Judges 6:16: "unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites"
Judges 6:25: " And it came to pass night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's"
Judges 6:27: "as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared"
Judges 6:37: "in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry"
Judges 6:38: " And it was for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece"
Judges 6:39: "this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece,"
Judges 6:39: "and upon all the ground let there be dew."
Judges 6:40: "so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only,"
