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 Chronicles 6:28: "dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting,"
2 Chronicles 6:28: "there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars;"
2 Chronicles 6:29: "or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people"
2 Chronicles 6:40: "let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer"
2 Chronicles 7:13: "If heaven that there be no rain, or if I command"
2 Chronicles 7:15: "Now shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this"
2 Chronicles 7:16: "this house, that my name may be there forever: and mine eyes"
2 Chronicles 7:16: "forever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually."
2 Chronicles 7:21: "And this which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth"
2 Chronicles 8:1: " And it came to pass of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built"
2 Chronicles 8:6: "cities that Solomon had, and all the chariot cities, and the cities"
2 Chronicles 9:1: "him of all that was in her heart."
2 Chronicles 9:4: "he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit"
2 Chronicles 9:8: "Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on"
2 Chronicles 9:9: "and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen"
2 Chronicles 9:13: "to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six"
2 Chronicles 9:25: "And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve"
2 Chronicles 9:26: " And he reigned the kings from the river even unto the land"
2 Chronicles 10:2: " And it came to pass, the son of Nebat, who was in Egypt, whither he had fled"
2 Chronicles 10:6: "with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father"
2 Chronicles 10:6: "before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give"
2 Chronicles 10:7: "him, saying, If thou be kind to this people, and please"
2 Chronicles 10:7: "good words to them, they will be thy servants forever."
2 Chronicles 10:15: "the people: for the cause was of God, that"
2 Chronicles 11:2: "But the word came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying,"
2 Chronicles 11:4: "for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed"
2 Chronicles 11:12: "he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah"
2 Chronicles 12:1: " And it came to pass, had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law"
2 Chronicles 12:2: " And it came to pass, year of king Rehoboam Shishak king of Egypt"
2 Chronicles 12:7: "they humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves;"
2 Chronicles 12:8: "Nevertheless they shall be his servants; that they may know my service, and the service of the kingdoms of the countries."
2 Chronicles 12:11: "And when entered into the house of the LORD, the guard"
2 Chronicles 12:12: "and also in Judah things went well."
2 Chronicles 13:2: "of Uriel of Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam."
2 Chronicles 13:7: "the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tenderhearted, and could not"
2 Chronicles 13:9: "himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no"
2 Chronicles 13:13: "an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment"
2 Chronicles 13:15: "and as the men of Judah shouted, it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam"
2 Chronicles 14:8: "And Asa had an army of men that bore targets and spears, out of Judah"
2 Chronicles 14:14: "for the fear of the LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all"
2 Chronicles 14:14: "all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil"
2 Chronicles 15:1: "And the Spirit came upon Azariah the son of Oded:"
2 Chronicles 15:2: "and Benjamin; The LORD is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found"
2 Chronicles 15:17: "out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days."
2 Chronicles 15:19: " And there was more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign"
2 Chronicles 16:5: " And it came to pass, heard it, that he left off building of Ramah,"
2 Chronicles 16:8: " Were the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many"
2 Chronicles 17:3: "And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways"
2 Chronicles 17:5: "brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honor in abundance."
2 Chronicles 17:10: "And the fear fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that"
