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 19:25: "it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste"
2 Kings 19:26: "power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb,"
2 Kings 19:35: " And it came to pass night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp"
2 Kings 19:37: " And it came to pass, was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer"
2 Kings 20:4: " And it came to pass, Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word of the LORD"
2 Kings 20:4: "court, that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,"
2 Kings 20:13: "that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all"
2 Kings 20:15: "the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that"
2 Kings 20:18: "from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king"
2 Kings 20:19: "good, if peace and truth be in my days?"
2 Kings 21:14: "and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;"
2 Kings 21:15: "that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since"
2 Kings 22:3: " And it came to pass year of king Josiah, that the king sent"
2 Kings 22:11: " And it came to pass, had heard the words of the book of the law, that he rent"
2 Kings 22:19: "this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent"
2 Kings 23:25: "And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to"
2 Kings 23:27: "and the house of which I said, My name shall be there."
2 Kings 24:1: "of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned"
2 Kings 24:3: "the commandment of the LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of"
2 Kings 24:7: "unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king"
2 Kings 24:20: "the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out"
2 Kings 25:1: " And it came to pass year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month,"
2 Kings 25:3: "the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land."
2 Kings 25:16: "of all these vessels was without weight."
2 Kings 25:25: " But it came to pass month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama,"
2 Kings 25:25: "that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah."
2 Kings 25:27: " And it came to pass and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah,"
1 Chronicles 1:10: "Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth."
1 Chronicles 1:51: "also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah,"
1 Chronicles 2:3: "the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight of the LORD;"
1 Chronicles 2:22: "Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land"
1 Chronicles 2:25: "the firstborn of Hezron were, Ram the firstborn, and Bunah, and Oren,"
1 Chronicles 2:26: "Jerahmeel had also another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother"
1 Chronicles 2:27: "the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker."
1 Chronicles 2:28: "And the sons were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab,"
1 Chronicles 2:33: "Peleth, and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel."
1 Chronicles 2:34: "Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan"
1 Chronicles 2:50: "These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah;"
1 Chronicles 2:52: "And Shobal of Kirjath-jearim had sons; Haroeh, and half of the Manahethites."
1 Chronicles 3:1: "Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn"
1 Chronicles 4:5: "And Ashur of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah."
1 Chronicles 4:9: "And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name"
1 Chronicles 4:10: "and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from"
1 Chronicles 4:14: "of the valley of Charashim; for they were craftsmen."
1 Chronicles 6:32: " And they ministered the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until"
1 Chronicles 6:54: "of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot."
1 Chronicles 6:66: "And the residue of the families of Kohath had cities of their coasts out of the tribe"
1 Chronicles 7:15: "of the second was Zelophehad: and Zelophehad had daughters."
1 Chronicles 7:19: "And the sons were, Ahian, and Shechem, and Likhi, and Aniam."
1 Chronicles 7:23: "his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house."
