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 11:3: " And he had hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines:"
1 Kings 11:4: " For it came to pass, Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart"
1 Kings 11:4: "other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD"
1 Kings 11:11: "Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant"
1 Kings 11:15: " For it came to pass, was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host"
1 Kings 11:15: "For it came to pass, was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host"
1 Kings 11:20: "Pharaoh's house: and Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the sons"
1 Kings 11:24: "And he gathered unto him, and became captain over a band, when David slew"
1 Kings 11:25: " And he was to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief"
1 Kings 11:29: " And it came to pass time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet"
1 Kings 11:32: " (But he shall have tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake,"
1 Kings 11:36: "that David my servant may have a light always before"
1 Kings 11:37: "that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel."
1 Kings 11:38: " And it shall be, thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk"
1 Kings 11:38: "David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house,"
1 Kings 11:40: "Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon."
1 Kings 12:2: " And it came to pass, the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard"
1 Kings 12:6: "before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye"
1 Kings 12:7: "him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day,"
1 Kings 12:7: "good words to them, then they will be thy servants forever."
1 Kings 12:15: "the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that"
1 Kings 12:20: " And it came to pass, Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent"
1 Kings 12:20: "and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house"
1 Kings 12:22: "But the word came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,"
1 Kings 12:24: "for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore"
1 Kings 12:30: "And this became a sin: for the people went to worship before the one,"
1 Kings 12:31: "of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons"
1 Kings 13:4: " And it came to pass, Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God,"
1 Kings 13:6: "the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before."
1 Kings 13:20: " And it came to pass, sat at the table, that the word of the LORD came"
1 Kings 13:20: "the table, that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:"
1 Kings 13:23: " And it came to pass, he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk, that he saddled for him the ass,"
1 Kings 13:24: "him by the way, and slew him: and his carcass was cast in the way, and the ass stood"
1 Kings 13:31: " And it came to pass, he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, When I am dead,"
1 Kings 13:32: "which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass."
1 Kings 13:32: "which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass. shall surely come to pass."
1 Kings 13:33: "of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated"
1 Kings 13:34: "And this became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy"
1 Kings 14:3: "him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child."
1 Kings 14:5: "thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman."
1 Kings 14:6: " And it was heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door,"
1 Kings 14:8: "away from the house of David, and gave it thee: and yet thou hast not been as my servant David, who"
1 Kings 14:9: "above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made"
1 Kings 14:24: " And there were sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations"
1 Kings 14:25: " And it came to pass year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt"
1 Kings 14:28: " And it was the king went into the house of the LORD, that the guard"
1 Kings 14:30: " And there was between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days."
1 Kings 15:3: "he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD"
1 Kings 15:6: " And there was between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life."
1 Kings 15:7: "of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam"
