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:
Ruth 2:13: "friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens."
Ruth 2:17: "that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley."
Ruth 2:19: "and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she showed her mother-in-law"
Ruth 3:2: "with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley"
Ruth 3:4: " And it shall be, that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie,"
Ruth 3:8: " And it came to pass that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman"
Ruth 3:13: "Tarry and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman's part:"
Ruth 4:12: "And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bore unto Judah,"
Ruth 4:13: "Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD"
Ruth 4:15: " And he shall be of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter-in-law,"
Ruth 4:16: "the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse"
1 Samuel 1:1: " Now there was man of Ramathaim-zophim, of mount Ephraim,"
1 Samuel 1:2: "of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children."
1 Samuel 1:4: "And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all"
1 Samuel 1:12: " And it came to pass, she continued praying before the LORD, that Eli marked"
1 Samuel 1:18: "her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more"
1 Samuel 1:20: " Wherefore it came to pass, was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bore a son, and called"
1 Samuel 1:28: "as he liveth he shall be lent to the LORD. And he worshiped the LORD"
1 Samuel 2:11: "to his house. And the child did minister unto the LORD"
1 Samuel 2:17: "Wherefore the sin was very great before the LORD:"
1 Samuel 2:27: "Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?"
1 Samuel 2:31: "and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be that there shall not be an old man in thine house."
1 Samuel 2:32: "Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house forever."
1 Samuel 2:36: " And it shall come to pass, that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver"
1 Samuel 3:1: "Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no"
1 Samuel 3:2: " And it came to pass when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began"
1 Samuel 3:9: "unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say,"
1 Samuel 3:19: "And Samuel and the LORD was with him, and did let none"
1 Samuel 4:1: "And the word came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against"
1 Samuel 4:7: "Woe unto us! for there hath not been such a thing heretofore."
1 Samuel 4:9: "Be strong, and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as"
1 Samuel 4:9: "that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight."
1 Samuel 4:10: "and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell"
1 Samuel 4:16: "the army. And he said, What is there done, my son?"
1 Samuel 4:17: "is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people,"
1 Samuel 4:18: " And it came to pass, of the ark of God, that he fell from off"
1 Samuel 5:9: " And it was they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city"
1 Samuel 5:9: "they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great"
1 Samuel 5:10: "the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron,"
1 Samuel 5:11: "us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city;"
1 Samuel 6:1: "And the ark was in the country of the Philistines seven months."
1 Samuel 6:9: "that smote us: it was a chance that happened"
1 Samuel 7:2: " And it came to pass, the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long;"
1 Samuel 7:2: "abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all"
1 Samuel 7:10: "And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel:"
1 Samuel 7:13: "into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days"
1 Samuel 7:14: "and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace"
1 Samuel 8:1: " And it came to pass, Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges"
1 Samuel 8:2: "Now the name was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges"
1 Samuel 8:11: "And he said, will be the manner of the king that shall reign over"
