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 Kings 4:22: "for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore"
1 Kings 4:24: "over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all"
1 Kings 4:26: "And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve"
1 Kings 4:28: "they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge."
1 Kings 4:31: "and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations"
1 Kings 4:32: "thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five."
1 Kings 5:1: "of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David."
1 Kings 5:6: "out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire"
1 Kings 5:7: " And it came to pass, heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly,"
1 Kings 5:12: "wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon;"
1 Kings 5:13: "out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men."
1 Kings 5:14: "a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home:"
1 Kings 5:15: "And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bore burdens, and fourscore thousand"
1 Kings 6:1: " And it came to pass hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out"
1 Kings 6:11: "And the word came to Solomon, saying,"
1 Kings 6:17: "is, the temple before it, was forty cubits"
1 Kings 7:8: "had another court within the porch, which was of the like work."
1 Kings 8:8: "and they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day."
1 Kings 8:10: " And it came to pass, were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled"
1 Kings 8:16: "the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be therein; but I chose"
1 Kings 8:16: "that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people"
1 Kings 8:17: " And it was the heart of David my father to build a house for the name"
1 Kings 8:18: "David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build"
1 Kings 8:18: "a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart."
1 Kings 8:29: "That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day,"
1 Kings 8:29: "of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer"
1 Kings 8:35: "When heaven and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray"
1 Kings 8:37: "If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting,"
1 Kings 8:37: "in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust,"
1 Kings 8:37: "mildew, locust, or if there be caterpillar; if their enemy besiege"
1 Kings 8:38: "and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all"
1 Kings 8:52: "That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy servant, and unto the supplication"
1 Kings 8:54: " And it was had made an end of praying all this prayer"
1 Kings 8:57: "The LORD be with us, as he was with our fathers:"
1 Kings 8:57: "be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave"
1 Kings 8:59: "I have made supplication before the LORD, be nigh unto the LORD our God"
1 Kings 8:61: "Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes,"
1 Kings 9:1: " And it came to pass, had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's"
1 Kings 9:3: "forever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually."
1 Kings 9:7: "for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb"
1 Kings 9:8: "And at this which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished,"
1 Kings 9:10: " And it came to pass of twenty years, when Solomon had built"
1 Kings 9:19: "of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen,"
1 Kings 10:2: "him of all that was in her heart."
1 Kings 10:3: "her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from"
1 Kings 10:5: "he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit"
1 Kings 10:6: "And she said the king, It was a true report that I heard"
1 Kings 10:9: "Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on"
1 Kings 10:14: "to Solomon in one year was six hundred threescore and six"
1 Kings 10:26: "chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots,"
