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:
1 Samuel 8:17: "He will take the tenth and ye shall be his servants."
1 Samuel 8:19: "and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over"
1 Samuel 8:20: "That we may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out"
1 Samuel 9:1: " Now there was of Benjamin, whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel,"
1 Samuel 9:2: " And he had whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children"
1 Samuel 9:26: "And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul"
1 Samuel 10:5: "of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither"
1 Samuel 10:7: " And let it be, these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve"
1 Samuel 10:9: " And it was his back to go from Samuel, God"
1 Samuel 10:11: " And it came to pass, that knew him formerly saw that, behold,"
1 Samuel 10:11: "one to another, What is this that is come unto the son of Kish?"
1 Samuel 10:12: "and said, But who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul"
1 Samuel 11:8: "the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men"
1 Samuel 11:9: "of Jabesh-gilead, Tomorrow, by that time the sun be hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came"
1 Samuel 11:11: " And it was that Saul put the people in three"
1 Samuel 11:11: "the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two"
1 Samuel 12:14: "that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:"
1 Samuel 12:15: "of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers."
1 Samuel 13:2: "thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash"
1 Samuel 13:2: "in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah"
1 Samuel 13:10: " And it came to pass, of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul"
1 Samuel 13:21: " Yet they had for the mattocks, and for the colters, and for the forks, and for the axes,"
1 Samuel 13:22: " So it came to pass of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand"
1 Samuel 14:1: " Now it came to pass that Jonathan the son of Saul said unto the young man"
1 Samuel 14:14: "Jonathan and his armorbearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were a half"
1 Samuel 14:15: " And there was in the host, in the field, and among all the people: the garrison, and the spoilers,"
1 Samuel 14:15: "trembled, and the earth quaked: so it was a very great trembling."
1 Samuel 14:18: "For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel."
1 Samuel 14:19: " And it came to pass, Saul talked unto the priest, that the noise that"
1 Samuel 14:20: "and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture."
1 Samuel 14:21: "Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with"
1 Samuel 14:21: "from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with"
1 Samuel 14:25: "came to a wood; and there was honey upon the ground."
1 Samuel 14:38: "and see wherein this sin hath been this day."
1 Samuel 14:40: "all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I"
1 Samuel 14:40: "and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said"
1 Samuel 14:49: "Now the sons were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchi-shua: and the names of his two"
1 Samuel 14:52: " And there was war against the Philistines all the days of Saul:"
1 Samuel 15:10: " Then came of the LORD unto Samuel, saying,"
1 Samuel 15:26: "of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being thee from being king over Israel."
1 Samuel 16:6: " And it came to pass, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD's"
1 Samuel 16:16: "who is a cunning player on a harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God"
1 Samuel 16:16: "player on a harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon"
1 Samuel 16:21: "before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armorbearer."
1 Samuel 16:23: " And it came to pass, the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took"
1 Samuel 16:23: "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took"
1 Samuel 17:9: "to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail"
1 Samuel 17:9: "I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve"
1 Samuel 17:25: "Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king"
1 Samuel 17:34: "unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came"
