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:
Judges 6:40: "upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground."
Judges 7:1: "of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill"
Judges 7:4: "unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto"
Judges 7:6: "putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all"
Judges 7:8: "men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley."
Judges 7:9: " And it came to pass night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down"
Judges 7:15: " And it was heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshiped,"
Judges 7:17: "come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do."
Judges 8:11: "and smote the host: for the host was secure."
Judges 8:26: "earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold;"
Judges 8:27: "Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house."
Judges 8:30: "And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had"
Judges 8:30: "of his body begotten: for he had many wives."
Judges 8:33: " And it came to pass, Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring"
Judges 9:33: " And it shall be, as soon as the sun is up, thou shalt rise early, and set upon the city:"
Judges 9:42: " And it came to pass that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech."
Judges 9:51: " But there was tower within the city, and thither fled all"
Judges 10:4: " And he had sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty"
Judges 10:18: "to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
Judges 11:1: "Now Jephthah was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a harlot:"
Judges 11:4: " And it came to pass that the children of Ammon made war against Israel."
Judges 11:5: " And it was the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders"
Judges 11:6: "And they said Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon."
Judges 11:8: "us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
Judges 11:9: "and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?"
Judges 11:10: "unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do"
Judges 11:29: "Then the Spirit came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead,"
Judges 11:31: " Then it shall be, cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return"
Judges 11:31: "me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the LORD's, and I will offer it up"
Judges 11:35: " And it came to pass, her, that he rent his clothes, and said, Alas, my daughter!"
Judges 11:35: "my daughter! thou hast brought me very low, and thou art one of them that trouble me: for I have opened"
Judges 11:39: " And it came to pass of two months, that she returned unto her father,"
Judges 11:39: "and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,"
Judges 12:2: "unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children"
Judges 12:5: "the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said,"
Judges 12:9: " And he had sons, and thirty daughters, whom he sent abroad, and took in"
Judges 12:14: " And he had sons and thirty nephews, that rode on"
Judges 13:2: " And there was man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites,"
Judges 13:5: "his head: for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb:"
Judges 13:7: "unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb"
Judges 13:12: "let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do"
Judges 13:20: " For it came to pass, went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel"
Judges 14:11: " And it came to pass, him, that they brought thirty companions to be with"
Judges 14:11: "him, that they brought thirty companions to be with"
Judges 14:15: " And it came to pass day, that they said unto Samson's wife, Entice"
Judges 14:17: "days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told"
Judges 14:17: "while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because"
Judges 14:20: "But Samson's was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend."
Judges 15:1: " But it came to pass after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited"
Judges 15:2: "is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead"
