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:
Ecclesiastes 8:7: "for who can tell him when it shall be?"
Ecclesiastes 8:12: "I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which"
Ecclesiastes 8:13: "But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow;"
Ecclesiastes 9:8: "Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no"
Ecclesiastes 10:14: "a man cannot tell what shall be; what shall be; and what shall be"
Ecclesiastes 10:14: "tell what shall be; and what shall be after"
Ecclesiastes 11:2: "not what evil shall be upon the earth."
Ecclesiastes 11:8: "the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh"
Ecclesiastes 12:7: "to the earth as it was: as it was: and the spirit shall return unto"
Ecclesiastes 12:9: "And moreover, was was wise, he still taught"
Song of Solomon 1:7: "where thou makest thyflock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by"
Song of Solomon 7:8: "of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose"
Song of Solomon 8:10: "and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor."
Song of Solomon 8:11: "Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers;"
Isaiah 1:9: "had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah."
Isaiah 1:14: "my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear"
Isaiah 1:18: "the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though"
Isaiah 1:18: "though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
Isaiah 1:21: "How city become a harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness"
Isaiah 1:22: "Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:"
Isaiah 1:30: "For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no"
Isaiah 1:31: "And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together,"
Isaiah 2:2: " And it shall come to pass days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established"
Isaiah 2:2: "that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted"
Isaiah 3:6: "of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under"
Isaiah 3:7: "shall he swear, saying, I will not be a healer; for in my house is neither bread"
Isaiah 3:24: " And it shall come to pass, of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent;"
Isaiah 3:24: "And it shall come to pass, of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent;"
Isaiah 4:2: "shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth"
Isaiah 4:3: " And it shall come to pass, in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one"
Isaiah 4:6: " And there shall be for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert"
Isaiah 5:1: "of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:"
Isaiah 5:5: "will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall"
Isaiah 5:5: "thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:"
Isaiah 5:9: "Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair,"
Isaiah 5:12: "the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work"
Isaiah 5:24: "consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust:"
Isaiah 5:25: "them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets."
Isaiah 6:13: "But yet and it shall return, and shall be eaten: as a teil tree, and as an oak, whose"
Isaiah 7:1: " And it came to pass of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king"
Isaiah 7:7: "It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass."
Isaiah 7:18: " And it shall come to pass day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part"
Isaiah 7:21: " And it shall come to pass day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two"
Isaiah 7:22: " And it shall come to pass, of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for"
Isaiah 7:23: " And it shall come to pass day, that every place shall be, where there were"
Isaiah 7:23: "day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines"
Isaiah 7:23: "place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings,"
Isaiah 7:23: "vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns."
Isaiah 7:24: "because all the land shall become briers and thorns."
Isaiah 7:25: "the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle."
