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:
Isaiah 8:14: " And he shall be but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense to both the houses"
Isaiah 8:21: "And they shall pass and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse"
Isaiah 9:5: "and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire."
Isaiah 9:6: "shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty"
Isaiah 9:19: "is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man"
Isaiah 10:2: "the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!"
Isaiah 10:12: " Wherefore it shall come to pass, the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount"
Isaiah 10:14: "gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened"
Isaiah 10:17: "And the light shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour"
Isaiah 10:18: "and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth."
Isaiah 10:19: "And the rest of his forest shall be few, that a child may write"
Isaiah 10:20: " And it shall come to pass day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob,"
Isaiah 10:22: "thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return:"
Isaiah 10:27: " And it shall come to pass day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder,"
Isaiah 11:5: "And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins."
Isaiah 11:10: "And in that there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign"
Isaiah 11:10: "it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious."
Isaiah 11:11: " And it shall come to pass day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover"
Isaiah 11:16: " And there shall be for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria;"
Isaiah 11:16: "shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up"
Isaiah 12:2: "JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation."
Isaiah 13:14: " And it shall be roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn"
Isaiah 13:19: "the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom"
Isaiah 14:2: "of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors."
Isaiah 14:3: " And it shall come to pass that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear,"
Isaiah 14:24: "Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it"
Isaiah 14:28: "Ahaz died was this burden."
Isaiah 15:6: "For of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away,"
Isaiah 15:6: "is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing."
Isaiah 16:2: " For it shall be, bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be"
Isaiah 16:2: "of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon."
Isaiah 16:12: " And it shall come to pass, it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place,"
Isaiah 17:1: "Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap."
Isaiah 17:2: "The cities are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid."
Isaiah 17:3: "and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children"
Isaiah 17:4: "And in that it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh"
Isaiah 17:5: " And it shall be gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be"
Isaiah 17:5: "and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim."
Isaiah 17:9: "shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which"
Isaiah 17:9: "because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation."
Isaiah 18:5: "when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs"
Isaiah 19:10: " And they shall be in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish."
Isaiah 19:15: "Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch"
Isaiah 19:16: "In that shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because"
Isaiah 19:17: "And the land shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention"
Isaiah 19:18: "In that shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak"
Isaiah 19:19: "In that shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt,"
Isaiah 19:20: " And it shall be and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for"
Isaiah 19:23: "In that shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian"
Isaiah 19:24: "In that shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing"
