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 Chronicles 20:4: " And it came to pass this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines;"
1 Chronicles 20:5: " And there was again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair"
1 Chronicles 20:6: "And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes"
1 Chronicles 20:6: "war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four"
1 Chronicles 21:3: "require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel?"
1 Chronicles 21:5: "David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand"
1 Chronicles 21:17: "let thine hand, I pray thee, O LORD my God, be on me, and on my father's house; but not"
1 Chronicles 22:7: "to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build a house"
1 Chronicles 22:8: "But the word came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly,"
1 Chronicles 22:9: "shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all"
1 Chronicles 22:9: "his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give"
1 Chronicles 22:10: "a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish"
1 Chronicles 22:11: "Now, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house"
1 Chronicles 22:14: "without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared;"
1 Chronicles 22:16: "Arise therefore, and be doing, and the LORD be with"
1 Chronicles 23:3: "and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand."
1 Chronicles 23:11: "And Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah had not many"
1 Chronicles 23:11: "and Beriah had not many sons; therefore they were in one reckoning, according to their father's"
1 Chronicles 23:17: "were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons"
1 Chronicles 23:22: "And Eleazar and had no sons, but daughters:"
1 Chronicles 24:2: "died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar"
1 Chronicles 24:5: "of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God, were of the sons of Eleazar, and of the sons"
1 Chronicles 24:28: "Of Mahli who had no sons."
1 Chronicles 25:1: "and the number of the workmen according to their service was:"
1 Chronicles 25:7: "of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight."
1 Chronicles 26:10: "Simri the chief, (for though he was not the firstborn, yet his father made"
1 Chronicles 27:24: "to number, but he finished not, because there fell wrath for it against Israel;"
1 Chronicles 28:4: "me before all the house of my father to be king over Israel"
1 Chronicles 28:6: "I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father."
1 Chronicles 28:12: "And the pattern that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house"
1 Chronicles 29:25: "majesty as had not been on any king before"
2 Chronicles 1:3: "was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which"
2 Chronicles 1:11: "to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not"
2 Chronicles 1:12: "such as none of the kings have had that have been before thee, neither"
2 Chronicles 1:12: "that have been before thee, neither shall there any after thee have the like."
2 Chronicles 1:14: "chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots,"
2 Chronicles 5:8: "For the cherubims spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims"
2 Chronicles 5:9: "but they were not seen without. And there it is unto this day."
2 Chronicles 5:11: " And it came to pass, were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests"
2 Chronicles 5:13: " It came even to pass, and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising"
2 Chronicles 6:5: "the tribes of Israel to build a house in, that my name might be there; neither"
2 Chronicles 6:5: "might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over"
2 Chronicles 6:6: "But I have chosen that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be"
2 Chronicles 6:6: "there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel."
2 Chronicles 6:7: " Now it was the heart of David my father to build a house for the name"
2 Chronicles 6:8: "David my father, Forasmuch as it was in thine heart to build"
2 Chronicles 6:8: "a house for my name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart:"
2 Chronicles 6:20: "That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night,"
2 Chronicles 6:26: "When the heaven and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray"
2 Chronicles 6:28: "If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if"
