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 19:12: "are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?"
2 Samuel 19:13: "to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before"
2 Samuel 19:22: "of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day"
2 Samuel 19:25: " And it came to pass, he was come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said"
2 Samuel 19:28: "of my father's house were but dead men"
2 Samuel 19:35: "and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord"
2 Samuel 19:43: "then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king?"
2 Samuel 20:3: "and fed them, but went not in unto them. So they were shut up unto the day"
2 Samuel 20:26: "And Ira the Jairite was a chief ruler about David."
2 Samuel 21:1: " Then there was in the days of David three years, year after"
2 Samuel 21:15: "Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants"
2 Samuel 21:18: " And it came to pass this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines"
2 Samuel 21:18: "And it came to pass this, that there was again a battle with the Philistines"
2 Samuel 21:19: " And there was a battle in Gob with the Philistines, where Elhanan the son"
2 Samuel 21:20: " And there was a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand"
2 Samuel 21:20: "a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six"
2 Samuel 22:19: "of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay."
2 Samuel 22:24: " I was before him and have kept myself from mine iniquity."
2 Samuel 23:11: "were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentils:"
2 Samuel 23:19: "honorable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto"
2 Samuel 24:9: "of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand"
2 Samuel 24:11: "in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's"
2 Samuel 24:13: "while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land?"
2 Samuel 24:16: "thine hand. And the angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite."
2 Samuel 24:17: "have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house."
1 Kings 1:8: "and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah."
1 Kings 1:21: " Otherwise it shall come to pass, the king shall sleep with his fathers, that I and my son"
1 Kings 1:21: "that I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders."
1 Kings 1:27: "Is this done by my lord the king, and thou hast not"
1 Kings 1:35: "shall be king in my stead: and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over"
1 Kings 1:37: "As hath been with my lord the king, even so be"
1 Kings 1:37: "my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater"
1 Kings 1:52: "And Solomon If he will show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of"
1 Kings 2:2: "of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and show thyself a man;"
1 Kings 2:7: "unto the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those that eat at thy table: for so"
1 Kings 2:15: "knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces"
1 Kings 2:15: "me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD."
1 Kings 2:15: "and is become my brother's: for it was his from the LORD."
1 Kings 2:27: "Abiathar from being from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfill"
1 Kings 2:33: "and upon his seed, and upon his house, and upon his throne, shall there be peace forever from"
1 Kings 2:37: " For it shall be, thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know"
1 Kings 2:37: "that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head."
1 Kings 2:39: " And it came to pass of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei"
1 Kings 2:45: "shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before the LORD forever."
1 Kings 3:12: "and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither"
1 Kings 3:13: "honor: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all"
1 Kings 3:18: " And it came to pass day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also:"
1 Kings 3:21: "behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not"
1 Kings 3:26: "wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor"
1 Kings 4:1: "So king was king over all Israel."
