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:
2 Samuel 5:2: "Also when Saul was king over us, thou"
2 Samuel 5:2: "was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest"
2 Samuel 5:2: "my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel."
2 Samuel 5:24: " And let it be, the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then"
2 Samuel 6:13: " And it was they that bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces,"
2 Samuel 6:16: " And as of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's"
2 Samuel 6:22: "And I will yet than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of"
2 Samuel 6:23: "Therefore Michal of Saul had no child unto the day"
2 Samuel 7:1: " And it came to pass, the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about"
2 Samuel 7:4: " And it came to pass night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan,"
2 Samuel 7:4: "night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,"
2 Samuel 7:6: "out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent"
2 Samuel 7:8: "the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people,"
2 Samuel 7:9: " And I was thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all"
2 Samuel 7:14: "I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity,"
2 Samuel 7:14: "his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten"
2 Samuel 7:16: "forever before thee: thy throne shall be established forever."
2 Samuel 7:24: "unto thee forever: and thou, LORD, art become their God."
2 Samuel 7:26: "Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be established before"
2 Samuel 7:28: "art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this"
2 Samuel 7:29: "the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee: for thou,"
2 Samuel 8:1: "And after it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued"
2 Samuel 8:2: "and with one full line to keep alive. And so the Moabites became David's servants, and brought"
2 Samuel 8:6: "in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts."
2 Samuel 8:7: "the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought"
2 Samuel 8:10: "he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi."
2 Samuel 8:10: "him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels"
2 Samuel 8:14: "he garrisons, and all they of Edom became David's servants. And the LORD preserved"
2 Samuel 8:18: "and the Pelethites; and David's sons were chief rulers."
2 Samuel 9:9: "son all that pertained to Saul and to all his house."
2 Samuel 9:10: "for him, and thou shalt bring in the fruits, that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's"
2 Samuel 10:1: " And it came to pass this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun"
2 Samuel 10:5: "to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said,"
2 Samuel 10:9: "that the front of the battle was against him before and behind,"
2 Samuel 10:11: "the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon"
2 Samuel 11:1: " And it came to pass, was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent"
2 Samuel 11:2: " And it came to pass that David arose from off his bed,"
2 Samuel 11:14: " And it came to pass that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent"
2 Samuel 11:16: " And it came to pass, observed the city, that he assigned Uriah"
2 Samuel 11:20: "And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached"
2 Samuel 11:23: "us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate."
2 Samuel 11:27: "and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing"
2 Samuel 12:1: "And he came unto him, and said unto him, There were two men in one city;"
2 Samuel 12:2: "The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds:"
2 Samuel 12:3: "save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up:"
2 Samuel 12:3: "of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was"
2 Samuel 12:10: "because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be"
2 Samuel 12:18: " And it came to pass day, that the child died. And the servants of David feared"
2 Samuel 12:18: "they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke unto him, and he would not"
2 Samuel 12:30: "whereof was a talent of gold with the precious stones: and it was set on David's head."
