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:
Nehemiah 6:14: "and the rest of the prophets, that would have put me in fear."
Nehemiah 6:16: " And it came to pass, all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that"
Nehemiah 6:19: "Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words"
Nehemiah 6:19: "his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah"
Nehemiah 7:1: " Now it came to pass, the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers"
Nehemiah 8:5: "of all the people; (for he was above all the people;)"
Nehemiah 8:17: "the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness."
Nehemiah 10:38: "And the priest of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes:"
Nehemiah 12:12: "And in the days were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah;"
Nehemiah 13:3: " Now it came to pass, the law, that they separated from Israel all"
Nehemiah 13:5: "chamber, where formerly formerly they laid the meat offerings,"
Nehemiah 13:6: "But in all time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth"
Nehemiah 13:19: " And it came to pass, the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded"
Nehemiah 13:22: "And I commanded that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates,"
Nehemiah 13:26: "these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was"
Nehemiah 13:26: "there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made"
Esther 1:1: " Now it came to pass of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India"
Esther 1:22: "every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house,"
Esther 2:5: "Now in Shushan there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son"
Esther 2:7: " And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter:"
Esther 2:8: " So it came to pass, commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together"
Esther 2:12: "to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve"
Esther 2:15: "chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favor"
Esther 2:20: "the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with"
Esther 3:4: " Now it came to pass, daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto"
Esther 3:14: "province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day."
Esther 5:1: " Now it came to pass day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner"
Esther 5:2: " And it was saw Esther the queen standing in the court,"
Esther 6:1: "the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king."
Esther 8:13: "was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day"
Esther 8:16: "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor."
Esther 9:21: "To establish them, that they should keep the fourteenth day"
Job 1:1: " There was in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man"
Job 1:1: "was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God,"
Job 1:3: "His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels,"
Job 1:3: "household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men"
Job 1:5: " And it was the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified"
Job 1:6: " Now there was when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,"
Job 1:13: " And there was when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest"
Job 1:14: "Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside"
Job 1:21: "the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."
Job 2:1: " Again there was when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,"
Job 3:4: "Let that be darkness; let not God regard it from above,"
Job 3:7: "Lo, night be solitary, let no joyful voice come"
Job 3:16: "untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light."
Job 5:16: "So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth."
Job 6:10: "Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for"
Job 6:21: "For ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid."
Job 6:29: "Return, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness"
Job 8:7: "Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase."
