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 25:16: "day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep."
1 Samuel 25:20: " And it was rode on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill,"
1 Samuel 25:26: "and they that seek evil to my lord, be as Nabal."
1 Samuel 25:29: "thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with"
1 Samuel 25:30: " And it shall come to pass, the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good"
1 Samuel 25:31: "That this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offense of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed"
1 Samuel 25:37: " But it came to pass when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told"
1 Samuel 25:37: "that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone."
1 Samuel 25:38: " And it came to pass days after, that the LORD smote Nabal, that he died."
1 Samuel 25:42: "after the messengers of David, and became his wife."
1 Samuel 25:43: "Ahinoam of Jezreel; and they were also both of them his wives."
1 Samuel 27:6: "day: wherefore Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this"
1 Samuel 27:7: "dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months."
1 Samuel 27:12: "He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever."
1 Samuel 28:1: " And it came to pass days, that the Philistines gathered together their armies for warfare,"
1 Samuel 28:16: "of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?"
1 Samuel 28:20: "afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength"
1 Samuel 28:22: "of bread before thee; and eat, that thou mayest have strength, when thou goest on thy way."
1 Samuel 29:3: "the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or"
1 Samuel 29:4: "him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary"
1 Samuel 29:8: "in thy servant so long as I have been with thee unto this"
1 Samuel 30:1: " And it came to pass, and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites"
1 Samuel 30:25: " And it was forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance"
1 Samuel 31:8: " And it came to pass when the Philistines came to strip the slain,"
2 Samuel 1:1: " Now it came to pass the death of Saul, when David was returned from the slaughter"
2 Samuel 1:2: " It came even to pass day, that, behold, a man came out of the camp"
2 Samuel 1:2: "rent, and earth upon his head: and so it was, when he came to David,"
2 Samuel 1:4: "unto him, How went the matter? I pray thee, tell me. And he answered,"
2 Samuel 2:1: " And it came to pass this, that David inquired of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up"
2 Samuel 2:7: "Therefore now be strengthened, and be ye valiant: for your master"
2 Samuel 2:10: "But the house of Judah followed David."
2 Samuel 2:11: "And the time David was king in Hebron over"
2 Samuel 2:11: "in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six"
2 Samuel 2:17: " And there was sore battle that day; and Abner"
2 Samuel 2:18: "And there were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel:"
2 Samuel 2:23: "him; and he fell down there, and died in the same place: and it came to pass, that as many as came to"
2 Samuel 2:25: "gathered themselves together after Abner, and became one troop, and stood on"
2 Samuel 2:26: "knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere"
2 Samuel 3:1: " Now there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David:"
2 Samuel 3:2: "born in Hebron: and his firstborn was Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess;"
2 Samuel 3:6: " And it came to pass, war between the house of Saul and the house of David,"
2 Samuel 3:6: "And it came to pass, while there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David,"
2 Samuel 3:17: "And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought"
2 Samuel 3:17: "the elders of Israel, saying, Ye sought for David in times"
2 Samuel 3:37: "that day that it was not of the king to slay"
2 Samuel 4:2: "And Saul's had two men that were captains of bands: the name"
2 Samuel 4:3: "And the Beerothites to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this"
2 Samuel 4:4: "had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings"
2 Samuel 4:4: "out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell,"
2 Samuel 4:10: "Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag,"
