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 17:12: "And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah"
2 Chronicles 17:13: " And he had business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men"
2 Chronicles 18:1: "Now Jehoshaphat had riches and honor in abundance, and joined affinity with Ahab."
2 Chronicles 18:12: "assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good."
2 Chronicles 18:21: "And he said, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets."
2 Chronicles 18:31: " And it came to pass, of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said,"
2 Chronicles 18:32: " For it came to pass, of the chariots perceived that it was not the king"
2 Chronicles 18:32: "of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again"
2 Chronicles 18:34: "day: howbeit the king of Israel stayed himself up in his chariot against the Syrians"
2 Chronicles 19:7: "Wherefore now of the LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for"
2 Chronicles 19:10: "and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon"
2 Chronicles 19:11: "you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good."
2 Chronicles 20:1: " It came to pass this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with"
2 Chronicles 20:14: "of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;"
2 Chronicles 20:25: "which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering"
2 Chronicles 20:29: "And the fear was on all the kingdoms of those countries, when they had heard"
2 Chronicles 21:6: "the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought"
2 Chronicles 21:9: "and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and smote"
2 Chronicles 21:19: " And it came to pass, after the end of two"
2 Chronicles 21:20: "Thirty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight"
2 Chronicles 22:3: "of Ahab: for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly."
2 Chronicles 22:4: "of Ahab: for they were his counselors after the death of his father"
2 Chronicles 22:7: "And the destruction was of God by coming to Joram:"
2 Chronicles 22:8: " And it came to pass, was executing judgment upon the house of Ahab, and found"
2 Chronicles 22:11: "the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,)"
2 Chronicles 22:12: " And he was them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah"
2 Chronicles 23:7: "into the house, he shall be put to death: but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out."
2 Chronicles 23:16: "the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD's people."
2 Chronicles 24:4: " And it came to pass this, that Joash was minded to repair"
2 Chronicles 24:4: "this, that Joash was minded to repair"
2 Chronicles 24:11: " Now it came to pass, the chest was brought unto the king's office"
2 Chronicles 24:12: "of the service of the house of the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair"
2 Chronicles 24:14: "and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD"
2 Chronicles 24:18: "groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this"
2 Chronicles 24:23: " And it came to pass of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came"
2 Chronicles 25:3: " Now it came to pass, the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants"
2 Chronicles 25:14: " Now it came to pass, Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites,"
2 Chronicles 25:16: " And it came to pass, with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king's counsel? forbear;"
2 Chronicles 26:5: " And he sought in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God:"
2 Chronicles 26:10: "many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains:"
2 Chronicles 26:10: "in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry."
2 Chronicles 26:11: "Moreover Uzziah had a host of fighting men, that went out to war by bands,"
2 Chronicles 26:15: "engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks,"
2 Chronicles 26:21: "And Uzziah was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt"
2 Chronicles 27:8: " He was and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen"
2 Chronicles 28:9: "But a prophet was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before"
2 Chronicles 28:23: "them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel."
2 Chronicles 29:8: "Wherefore the wrath was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble,"
2 Chronicles 29:11: "you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense."
2 Chronicles 29:32: "which the congregation brought, was threescore and ten bullocks, a hundred rams,"
