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 21:1: "things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard"
1 Kings 21:2: "Give me thy vineyard, that I may have it for a garden of herbs, because it"
1 Kings 21:15: " And it came to pass, heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel"
1 Kings 21:16: " And it came to pass, heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up"
1 Kings 21:17: "And the word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,"
1 Kings 21:25: "But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness"
1 Kings 21:27: " And it came to pass, heard those words, that he rent his clothes,"
1 Kings 21:28: "And the word came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,"
1 Kings 22:2: " And it came to pass year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to"
1 Kings 22:13: "mouth: let thy word, I pray thee, be like the word of one of them, and speak"
1 Kings 22:22: "him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all"
1 Kings 22:32: " And it came to pass, of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said,"
1 Kings 22:33: " And it came to pass, of the chariots perceived that it was not the king"
1 Kings 22:35: "that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians,"
2 Kings 1:17: "King of Judah: because he had no son."
2 Kings 2:1: " And it came to pass, would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah"
2 Kings 2:9: " And it came to pass, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what"
2 Kings 2:9: "I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon"
2 Kings 2:10: "thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not,"
2 Kings 2:10: "so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be"
2 Kings 2:11: " And it came to pass, still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses"
2 Kings 2:21: "these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death"
2 Kings 3:4: "And Mesha of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel"
2 Kings 3:5: " But it came to pass, was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel."
2 Kings 3:9: "of seven days' journey: and there was no water for the host, and for the cattle"
2 Kings 3:15: "But now me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the LORD"
2 Kings 3:15: "played, that the hand of the LORD came upon"
2 Kings 3:20: " And it came to pass when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way"
2 Kings 3:27: "him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel:"
2 Kings 4:1: "and thou knowest that thy servant did fear the LORD:"
2 Kings 4:6: " And it came to pass, were full, that she said unto her son, Bring"
2 Kings 4:8: " And it fell that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great"
2 Kings 4:8: "and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in"
2 Kings 4:10: "and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither."
2 Kings 4:11: " And it fell that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and lay"
2 Kings 4:18: "And when the child it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to"
2 Kings 4:25: "to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off,"
2 Kings 4:40: "So they poured out to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they"
2 Kings 4:41: "Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot."
2 Kings 5:1: "of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master,"
2 Kings 5:1: "by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valor,"
2 Kings 5:2: "out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife."
2 Kings 5:7: " And it came to pass, of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes,"
2 Kings 5:8: " And it was the man of God had heard that the king of Israel"
2 Kings 6:5: "But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water:"
2 Kings 6:20: " And it came to pass, into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open"
2 Kings 6:24: " And it came to pass this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered"
2 Kings 6:25: " And there was famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until"
2 Kings 6:25: "they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part"
2 Kings 6:26: "And as the king was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman"
