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 22:7: " And it shall come to pass, valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array"
Isaiah 22:20: " And it shall come to pass day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:"
Isaiah 22:21: "and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house"
Isaiah 22:23: "in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house."
Isaiah 23:3: "the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations."
Isaiah 23:13: "of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness:"
Isaiah 23:15: " And it shall come to pass day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days"
Isaiah 23:17: " And it shall come to pass of seventy years, that the LORD will visit"
Isaiah 23:18: "And her merchandise shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor"
Isaiah 23:18: "laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat"
Isaiah 24:2: " And it shall be, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer,"
Isaiah 24:13: "When it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking"
Isaiah 24:18: " And it shall come to pass, from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit;"
Isaiah 24:21: " And it shall come to pass day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones"
Isaiah 25:4: "For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge"
Isaiah 26:17: "and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD."
Isaiah 27:12: " And it shall come to pass day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river"
Isaiah 27:13: " And it shall come to pass day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish"
Isaiah 28:4: "the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before"
Isaiah 28:5: "shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty,"
Isaiah 28:13: "But the word was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line"
Isaiah 28:18: "the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down"
Isaiah 28:19: "by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand"
Isaiah 29:2: "Yet I will distress and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel."
Isaiah 29:2: "and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel."
Isaiah 29:4: "and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground,"
Isaiah 29:5: "Moreover the multitude shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff"
Isaiah 29:5: "of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly."
Isaiah 29:7: "that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision."
Isaiah 29:8: " It shall even be a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul"
Isaiah 29:8: "shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion."
Isaiah 29:11: "And the vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver"
Isaiah 29:13: "me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept"
Isaiah 29:15: "their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who"
Isaiah 30:3: "Therefore shall the strength be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion."
Isaiah 30:4: "For were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes."
Isaiah 30:8: "and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever:"
Isaiah 30:13: "Therefore iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high"
Isaiah 30:15: "shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not."
Isaiah 30:20: "be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers:"
Isaiah 30:23: "withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day"
Isaiah 30:25: " And there shall be every high mountain, and upon every high"
Isaiah 30:26: "Moreover the light shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be"
Isaiah 30:26: "of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days,"
Isaiah 30:29: " Ye shall have as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth"
Isaiah 30:32: "the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking"
Isaiah 31:8: "from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited."
Isaiah 32:2: "And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water"
Isaiah 32:14: "shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens forever,"
Isaiah 32:15: "upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted"
