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 Kings 6:30: " And it came to pass, heard the words of the woman, that he rent"
2 Kings 7:2: "in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,"
2 Kings 7:3: " And there were leprous men at the entering in of the gate: and they said one"
2 Kings 7:16: "of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel,"
2 Kings 7:18: " And it came to pass of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures"
2 Kings 7:18: "and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:"
2 Kings 7:19: "in heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes,"
2 Kings 7:20: "And so it fell out unto him: for the people trod upon him in the gate, and he died."
2 Kings 8:3: " And it came to pass years' end, that the woman returned out of the land"
2 Kings 8:5: " And it came to pass, was telling the king how he had restored a dead body to life,"
2 Kings 8:15: " And it came to pass that he took a thick cloth, and dipped it in water, and spread"
2 Kings 8:17: "years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years"
2 Kings 8:18: "for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight"
2 Kings 9:14: "against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead, he and all"
2 Kings 9:22: " And it came to pass, saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu?"
2 Kings 9:37: "And the carcass shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion"
2 Kings 10:7: " And it came to pass, came to them, that they took the king's sons,"
2 Kings 10:9: " And it came to pass that he went out, and stood, and said to all the people,"
2 Kings 10:25: " And it came to pass, of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains,"
2 Kings 11:3: " And he was hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah"
2 Kings 11:8: "and he that cometh within the ranges, let him be slain: and be ye with the king as he goeth out"
2 Kings 11:17: "the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD's people; between the king"
2 Kings 12:6: " But it was and twentieth year of king Jehoash the priests had not"
2 Kings 12:10: " And it was that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe"
2 Kings 12:16: "brought into the house of the LORD: it was the priests."
2 Kings 13:21: " And it came to pass, were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band"
2 Kings 14:2: " He was and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty"
2 Kings 14:5: " And it came to pass, the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants"
2 Kings 15:2: "Sixteen old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two"
2 Kings 15:5: "the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death,"
2 Kings 15:12: "of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass."
2 Kings 15:19: "talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand."
2 Kings 15:33: "years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen"
2 Kings 16:15: "of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire"
2 Kings 17:2: "as the kings of Israel that were before"
2 Kings 17:3: "king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents."
2 Kings 17:7: " For so it was, the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up"
2 Kings 17:25: " And so it was of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD:"
2 Kings 17:32: " So they feared the LORD, and made unto themselves of the lowest of them priests"
2 Kings 17:33: " They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner"
2 Kings 17:33: "They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner"
2 Kings 17:41: "So these feared the LORD, and served their graven images,"
2 Kings 18:1: " Now it came to pass year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel,"
2 Kings 18:2: "years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine"
2 Kings 18:4: "days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan."
2 Kings 18:5: "God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings"
2 Kings 18:5: "the kings of Judah, nor any that were before"
2 Kings 18:7: "And the LORD was with him; and he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled"
2 Kings 18:9: " And it came to pass year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year"
2 Kings 19:1: " And it came to pass, Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself"
