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 15:14: "that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire,"
Judges 15:17: " And it came to pass, of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called"
Judges 16:4: " And it came to pass that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name"
Judges 16:7: "were never dried, then shall I be weak, and be as another man."
Judges 16:11: "that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man."
Judges 16:16: " And it came to pass, she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul"
Judges 16:17: "then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man."
Judges 16:21: "and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house."
Judges 16:25: " And it came to pass, their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport."
Judges 16:30: "which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew"
Judges 17:1: " And there was of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah."
Judges 17:4: "who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah."
Judges 17:5: "and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest."
Judges 17:7: " And there was out of Bethlehem-judah of the family of Judah,"
Judges 17:10: "unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest, and I will give"
Judges 17:11: "with the man; and the young man was unto him as one of his sons."
Judges 17:12: "the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah."
Judges 17:12: "the Levite; and the young man became his priest, and was"
Judges 17:13: "the LORD will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest."
Judges 18:4: "dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest."
Judges 18:19: "thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be"
Judges 18:19: "to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man,"
Judges 18:19: "of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?"
Judges 18:27: "had made, and the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto"
Judges 18:30: "of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until"
Judges 18:31: "the time that the house of God was in Shiloh."
Judges 19:1: " And it came to pass days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain"
Judges 19:1: "when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side"
Judges 19:2: "her father's house to Bethlehem-judah, and was there four"
Judges 19:5: " And it came to pass day, when they arose early in the morning, that he rose up to depart: and the damsel's"
Judges 19:30: " And it was that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor"
Judges 19:30: "it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day"
Judges 20:3: "of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?"
Judges 20:12: "wickedness is this that is done"
Judges 20:38: " Now there was between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke"
Judges 20:46: "that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand"
Judges 21:3: "of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be today one tribe"
Judges 21:4: " And it came to pass that the people rose early, and built there an altar,"
Judges 21:5: "came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath"
Judges 21:22: " And it shall be, their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain,"
Ruth 1:1: " Now it came to pass when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man"
Ruth 1:1: "when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehem-judah"
Ruth 1:2: "of Bethlehem-judah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there."
Ruth 1:7: "the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her;"
Ruth 1:11: "me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?"
Ruth 1:12: "go your way; for I am too old to have to have a husband. If I should say,"
Ruth 1:12: "If I should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband also tonight,"
Ruth 1:13: "till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters;"
Ruth 1:19: "until they came to Bethlehem. And it came to pass, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city"
Ruth 2:12: "thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God"
