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 17:36: "and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied"
1 Samuel 17:37: "And Saul said unto David, Go, and the LORD be with"
1 Samuel 17:42: "David, he disdained him: for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair"
1 Samuel 17:48: " And it came to pass, the Philistine arose, and came and drew nigh to meet David,"
1 Samuel 18:1: " And it came to pass, of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit"
1 Samuel 18:6: " And it came to pass when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine,"
1 Samuel 18:10: " And it came to pass that the evil spirit from God came upon"
1 Samuel 18:12: "of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from"
1 Samuel 18:17: "her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD's"
1 Samuel 18:17: "For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be"
1 Samuel 18:17: "mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be"
1 Samuel 18:18: "family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"
1 Samuel 18:19: " But it came to pass when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David,"
1 Samuel 18:21: "And Saul I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be"
1 Samuel 18:21: "a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David,"
1 Samuel 18:29: "of David; and Saul became David's enemy"
1 Samuel 18:30: "Then the princes went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David"
1 Samuel 19:7: "David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past."
1 Samuel 19:8: " And there was again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew"
1 Samuel 19:9: "And the evil from the LORD was upon Saul, as he sat"
1 Samuel 19:20: "over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they"
1 Samuel 19:23: "in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on,"
1 Samuel 20:13: "then I will show it thee, and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with"
1 Samuel 20:13: "that thou mayest go in peace: and the LORD be with thee, as he hath been with"
1 Samuel 20:24: "in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat."
1 Samuel 20:27: " And it came to pass which was the second day of the month, that David's place was empty:"
1 Samuel 20:35: " And it came to pass that Jonathan went out into the field at the time appointed with David, and a little"
1 Samuel 20:42: "of the LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed"
1 Samuel 21:6: "him hallowed bread: for there was no bread there but"
1 Samuel 21:8: "with me, because the king's business required haste."
1 Samuel 22:2: "that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were"
1 Samuel 22:2: "unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred"
1 Samuel 22:4: "him all the while that David was in the hold."
1 Samuel 23:6: " And it came to pass, the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah,"
1 Samuel 23:17: "over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul"
1 Samuel 23:22: "his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for"
1 Samuel 23:23: "me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be"
1 Samuel 23:23: "and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out"
1 Samuel 23:26: "of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain:"
1 Samuel 24:1: " And it came to pass, Saul was returned from following the Philistines, that it was told"
1 Samuel 24:5: " And it came to pass that David's heart smote him, because"
1 Samuel 24:12: "me of thee: but mine hand shall not be"
1 Samuel 24:13: "from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be"
1 Samuel 24:15: "The LORD therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead"
1 Samuel 24:16: " And it came to pass, had made an end of speaking these words unto"
1 Samuel 25:2: "sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel."
1 Samuel 25:7: "now thy shepherds which were with us, we hurt them not, neither"
1 Samuel 25:7: "missing unto them, all the while they were in Carmel."
1 Samuel 25:15: "as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:"
1 Samuel 25:16: " They were unto us both by night and day, all"
