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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:

Genesis 25:27: "And the boys and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field;"
Genesis 26:1: " And there was in the land, beside the first famine that"
Genesis 26:1: "beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac"
Genesis 26:3: "Sojourn land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed,"
Genesis 26:8: " And it came to pass, he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines"
Genesis 26:14: " For he had of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines"
Genesis 26:28: "that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be"
Genesis 26:28: "the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath between"
Genesis 26:32: " And it came to pass day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning"
Genesis 26:34: "And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife"
Genesis 26:35: " Which were of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah."
Genesis 27:1: " And it came to pass, when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see,"
Genesis 27:12: "My father will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse"
Genesis 27:23: "because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands:"
Genesis 27:30: " And it came to pass, Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob"
Genesis 27:30: "Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from"
Genesis 27:33: "it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him? yea, and he shall be"
Genesis 27:39: "unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew"
Genesis 27:40: "shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke"
Genesis 28:3: "bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;"
Genesis 28:14: "And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north,"
Genesis 28:20: "saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way"
Genesis 28:21: "house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God:"
Genesis 28:22: "which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that"
Genesis 29:10: " And it came to pass, Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban"
Genesis 29:13: " And it came to pass, heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son,"
Genesis 29:17: "eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored."
Genesis 29:20: "seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love"
Genesis 29:23: " And it came to pass that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to"
Genesis 29:25: " And it came to pass, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban,"
Genesis 30:25: " And it came to pass, Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said"
Genesis 30:29: "I have served thee, and how thy cattle was with"
Genesis 30:30: "For which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a multitude; and the LORD"
Genesis 30:32: "among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire."
Genesis 30:34: "Behold, I would it might be according to thy word."
Genesis 30:41: " And it came to pass, the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid"
Genesis 30:42: "he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's."
Genesis 30:43: "And the man exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants,"
Genesis 31:3: "the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with"
Genesis 31:5: "me as before; but the God of my father hath been with"
Genesis 31:8: "thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bore"
Genesis 31:8: "he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy hire; then bore all the cattle"
Genesis 31:10: " And it came to pass that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream,"
Genesis 31:40: " Thus I was; the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed"
Genesis 31:42: "of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty."
Genesis 31:44: "a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between"
Genesis 32:5: " And I have and asses, flocks, and menservants, and womenservants: and I have sent to tell"
Genesis 32:10: "I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands."
Genesis 33:9: "I have enough, my brother; keep that"
Genesis 34:5: "Dinah his daughter: now his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob"









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