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 32:17: "And the work shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance"
Isaiah 33:2: "O LORD, unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also"
Isaiah 33:6: "And wisdom shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear"
Isaiah 33:9: "is ashamed and hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off"
Isaiah 33:12: "And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire."
Isaiah 34:9: "and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch."
Isaiah 34:12: "shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing."
Isaiah 34:13: "nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be a habitation of dragons, and a court for owls."
Isaiah 35:7: "And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons,"
Isaiah 35:8: "And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean"
Isaiah 35:9: "No shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up"
Isaiah 36:1: " Now it came to pass year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king"
Isaiah 37:1: " And it came to pass, Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself"
Isaiah 37:26: "times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defensed"
Isaiah 37:27: "power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb,"
Isaiah 37:38: " And it came to pass, was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer"
Isaiah 38:4: " Then came of the LORD to Isaiah, saying,"
Isaiah 39:2: "that was found in his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all"
Isaiah 39:4: "that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that"
Isaiah 39:7: "from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king"
Isaiah 39:8: "thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days."
Isaiah 40:4: "and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:"
Isaiah 41:11: "they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish."
Isaiah 41:12: "even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught."
Isaiah 42:22: "and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil,"
Isaiah 43:10: "God formed, neither shall there be after"
Isaiah 44:15: " Then shall it be to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth"
Isaiah 45:14: "of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over,"
Isaiah 46:1: "Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy laden;"
Isaiah 47:7: "And thou saidst, I shall be a lady forever: so that thou didst not lay these"
Isaiah 47:14: "Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver"
Isaiah 47:15: "Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast labored, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander"
Isaiah 48:16: "in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I:"
Isaiah 48:18: "to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:"
Isaiah 48:19: "Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not"
Isaiah 49:5: "be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength."
Isaiah 49:6: "And he said, that thou shouldest be that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes"
Isaiah 49:6: "of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end"
Isaiah 49:23: "And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth,"
Isaiah 50:11: "and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow."
Isaiah 51:6: "and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness"
Isaiah 51:8: "shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation."
Isaiah 55:6: "while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:"
Isaiah 55:11: "So be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not"
Isaiah 55:13: "of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign"
Isaiah 56:6: "the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath"
Isaiah 56:12: "and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant."
Isaiah 58:5: " Is a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul?"
Isaiah 58:11: "in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water,"
Isaiah 59:2: "But have separated between you and your God, and your sins"
