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 29:34: "But were too few, so that they could not flay"
2 Chronicles 29:36: "the people: for the thing was done suddenly."
2 Chronicles 30:7: " And be ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God"
2 Chronicles 30:10: "So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim"
2 Chronicles 30:10: "through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn,"
2 Chronicles 30:12: "the hand of God was to give them one heart to do"
2 Chronicles 30:26: " So there was joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon"
2 Chronicles 32:25: "done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon"
2 Chronicles 32:27: "And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he made himself treasuries"
2 Chronicles 32:31: "him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try"
2 Chronicles 33:4: "had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever."
2 Chronicles 34:19: " And it came to pass, had heard the words of the law, that he rent"
2 Chronicles 36:16: " But they mocked of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets,"
2 Chronicles 36:20: "carried he away to Babylon; where they were servants to him and his sons until the reign"
Ezra 1:3: "his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem,"
Ezra 8:31: "month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered"
Ezra 9:2: "of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass."
Ezra 9:8: "space grace hath been showed from the LORD our God,"
Nehemiah 1:1: "the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year,"
Nehemiah 1:1: "in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,"
Nehemiah 1:4: " And it came to pass, these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned"
Nehemiah 1:4: "and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God"
Nehemiah 1:6: "Let thine ear be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear"
Nehemiah 1:9: "my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather"
Nehemiah 1:11: "thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant,"
Nehemiah 1:11: "of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer."
Nehemiah 2:1: " And it came to pass Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine"
Nehemiah 2:1: "and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been formerly sad in his presence."
Nehemiah 2:6: "him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased"
Nehemiah 2:11: "So I came Jerusalem, and was there three days."
Nehemiah 2:13: "well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem,"
Nehemiah 2:15: " Then went I up by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back,"
Nehemiah 2:15: "Then went I up by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back,"
Nehemiah 2:17: "the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach."
Nehemiah 3:26: "Moreover the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the water gate"
Nehemiah 4:1: " But it came to pass, Sanballat heard that we built"
Nehemiah 4:4: "Hear, for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon"
Nehemiah 4:6: "unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work."
Nehemiah 4:7: " But it came to pass, Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard"
Nehemiah 4:12: " And it came to pass, the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten"
Nehemiah 4:15: " And it came to pass, our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to naught,"
Nehemiah 4:16: " And it came to pass that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work,"
Nehemiah 4:22: "within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and labor on the day."
Nehemiah 5:1: " And there was cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews."
Nehemiah 5:13: "not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied."
Nehemiah 5:14: "that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah,"
Nehemiah 5:18: "Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six"
Nehemiah 6:1: " Now it came to pass, Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies,"
Nehemiah 6:8: "Then I sent him, saying, There are no such things done as"
Nehemiah 6:13: "and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach"
