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:
Proverbs 14:23: "In all there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury."
Proverbs 14:26: "is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge."
Proverbs 14:35: "is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame."
Proverbs 22:19: "That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee."
Proverbs 22:26: " Be thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts."
Proverbs 23:20: " Be among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:"
Proverbs 23:34: " Yea, thou shalt be in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast."
Proverbs 24:1: "men, neither desire to be with"
Proverbs 24:20: "For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out."
Proverbs 24:28: " Be a witness against thy neighbor without cause; and deceive not with thy lips."
Proverbs 26:5: "according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit."
Proverbs 29:21: "He that delicately bringeth up from a child shall have him become his son at the length."
Proverbs 31:14: " She is ships; she bringeth her food from afar."
Ecclesiastes 1:9: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done"
Ecclesiastes 1:9: "The thing it is that which shall be; is that which shall be; and that which is done"
Ecclesiastes 1:10: "See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which"
Ecclesiastes 1:10: "hath been already of old time, which was before"
Ecclesiastes 1:11: "of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come"
Ecclesiastes 1:11: "things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come of things that are to come with those that shall come"
Ecclesiastes 1:11: "shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come those that shall come after."
Ecclesiastes 1:12: "I was king over Israel in Jerusalem."
Ecclesiastes 1:16: "than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart"
Ecclesiastes 2:7: "I got and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had"
Ecclesiastes 2:7: "servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle"
Ecclesiastes 2:7: "of great and small cattle above all that were that were in Jerusalem before"
Ecclesiastes 2:9: "So I was great, than all that were that were before me in Jerusalem:"
Ecclesiastes 2:10: "my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion"
Ecclesiastes 2:18: "under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be that shall be after"
Ecclesiastes 2:19: "And who whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all"
Ecclesiastes 3:14: "whatsoever God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put"
Ecclesiastes 3:15: "That which hath been That which hath been and that which is to be hath already"
Ecclesiastes 3:15: "That which hath been and that which is to be hath already been;"
Ecclesiastes 3:15: "and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth"
Ecclesiastes 3:20: "one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again."
Ecclesiastes 3:22: "for who shall bring him to see what shall be what shall be after"
Ecclesiastes 4:3: "they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen"
Ecclesiastes 4:16: "the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not"
Ecclesiastes 5:2: "earth: therefore let thy words be few."
Ecclesiastes 6:3: "years, so that the days of his years be be many, and his soul be not"
Ecclesiastes 6:3: "filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say,"
Ecclesiastes 6:10: "That which hath been is named already, and it is known that"
Ecclesiastes 6:12: "can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?"
Ecclesiastes 7:10: "Say thou, What is the cause that the former days were"
Ecclesiastes 7:10: "thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these?"
Ecclesiastes 7:14: "In the day be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God"
Ecclesiastes 7:16: " Be righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why"
Ecclesiastes 7:17: "wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before"
Ecclesiastes 7:19: "more than ten mighty men which are in the city."
Ecclesiastes 7:24: "That which is That which is and exceeding deep, who can find it out?"
Ecclesiastes 8:7: "not that which shall be: which shall be: for who can tell"
