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:
Job 10:19: " I should have been I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave."
Job 10:19: "I should have been I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave."
Job 11:4: "For thou hast said, is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes."
Job 11:15: "shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be steadfast, and shalt not fear:"
Job 11:17: "than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning."
Job 12:4: " I am of his neighbor, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright"
Job 13:5: "O that altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom."
Job 15:31: "in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompense."
Job 16:8: "And thou hast filled me with wrath, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face."
Job 16:12: " I was but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark."
Job 16:18: "not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place."
Job 17:6: "of the people; and formerly I was as a tabret."
Job 18:12: "His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side."
Job 19:15: "and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight."
Job 20:23: " When he his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon"
Job 21:2: "Hear diligently and let this be your consolations."
Job 21:18: " They are before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away."
Job 22:25: "Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defense, and thou shalt have plenty of silver."
Job 24:13: "They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor"
Job 24:14: "the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief."
Job 27:7: "Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous."
Job 29:4: "As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;"
Job 29:15: " I was to the blind, and feet was I to the lame."
Job 30:9: "And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword."
Job 30:9: "And now I their song, yea, I am their byword."
Job 30:29: " I am to dragons, and a companion to owls."
Job 30:31: "My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep."
Job 38:4: "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding."
Job 42:7: " And it was the LORD had spoken these words unto"
Job 42:12: "the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand"
Job 42:13: " He had sons and three daughters."
Psalms 1:3: " And he shall be planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth"
Psalms 9:9: "The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble."
Psalms 10:14: "committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless."
Psalms 18:18: "of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay."
Psalms 18:23: " I was before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity."
Psalms 19:14: "and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength,"
Psalms 22:14: "my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels."
Psalms 27:9: "far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave"
Psalms 30:7: "strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled."
Psalms 30:10: "and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper."
Psalms 31:2: "to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for a house of defense"
Psalms 31:11: " I was among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear"
Psalms 31:12: "I am forgotten out of mind: I am like a broken vessel."
Psalms 32:9: " Be as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in"
Psalms 33:9: "For spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast."
Psalms 33:22: "Let thy mercy, be upon us, according as we hope"
Psalms 35:5: " Let them be before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase"
Psalms 35:6: "Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute"
Psalms 37:18: "the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be forever."
