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:
Psalms 37:25: " I have been and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,"
Psalms 38:14: " Thus I was that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs."
Psalms 42:3: "My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say"
Psalms 45:16: "Instead shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth."
Psalms 50:21: "and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order"
Psalms 50:21: "and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes."
Psalms 53:5: "where no fear was: for God hath scattered"
Psalms 55:18: "in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with"
Psalms 59:16: "of thy mercy in the morning: for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble."
Psalms 61:3: "For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy."
Psalms 63:1: "A Psalm when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God;"
Psalms 63:7: "Because thou hast been my help, therefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice."
Psalms 63:10: "They shall fall the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes."
Psalms 64:7: "at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded."
Psalms 69:8: " I am become unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children."
Psalms 69:10: "When I wept, with fasting, that was to my reproach."
Psalms 69:11: "I made also my garment; and I became a proverb"
Psalms 69:22: "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap."
Psalms 69:25: "Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents."
Psalms 69:25: "Let their habitation desolate; and let none dwell in their tents."
Psalms 71:3: " Be habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for"
Psalms 71:7: " I am unto many; but thou art my strong refuge."
Psalms 72:16: " There shall be of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake"
Psalms 72:17: "His name shall endure forever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed"
Psalms 73:14: "For all long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning."
Psalms 73:19: "How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors."
Psalms 73:22: "So foolish and ignorant: I was as a beast before"
Psalms 76:2: "In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion."
Psalms 78:8: "And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright,"
Psalms 79:4: " We are become to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to them that are round about"
Psalms 80:17: "Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man"
Psalms 81:9: "There shall no god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god."
Psalms 81:15: "should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured forever."
Psalms 83:8: "is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah."
Psalms 83:10: "Which perished they became as dung for the earth."
Psalms 88:4: "them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:"
Psalms 89:36: "His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before"
Psalms 89:41: "the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbors."
Psalms 90:1: "of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations."
Psalms 90:5: "Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up."
Psalms 90:17: "And let the beauty our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands"
Psalms 92:14: "They shall still in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;"
Psalms 94:22: "But the LORD is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge."
Psalms 99:8: "our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of"
Psalms 102:6: "I am like of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert."
Psalms 102:7: "I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top."
Psalms 104:20: "Thou makest and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep"
Psalms 104:31: "The glory shall endure forever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works."
Psalms 105:12: " When they were in number; yea, very few, and strangers"
Psalms 106:36: "And they served their idols: which were a snare"
