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 59:6: "Their webs become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works"
Isaiah 59:15: "Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD"
Isaiah 60:15: "Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal"
Isaiah 60:19: "The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness"
Isaiah 60:19: "shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory."
Isaiah 60:20: "withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning"
Isaiah 60:22: "A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD"
Isaiah 61:7: "the double: everlasting joy shall be"
Isaiah 62:3: " Thou shalt also be of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand"
Isaiah 63:8: "children that will not lie: so he was their Savior."
Isaiah 63:19: " We are didst bear rule over them; they were not called by"
Isaiah 64:6: " But we are as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all"
Isaiah 64:10: "Thy holy are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem"
Isaiah 64:10: "are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation."
Isaiah 64:11: "where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things"
Isaiah 64:11: "with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste."
Isaiah 65:10: "And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in,"
Isaiah 65:20: " There shall be more thence an infant of days, nor an old man"
Isaiah 65:24: " And it shall come to pass, they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking,"
Isaiah 66:2: "made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this"
Isaiah 66:23: " And it shall come to pass, one new moon to another, and from one sabbath"
Isaiah 66:24: "neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh."
Jeremiah 1:2: "To whom of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon"
Jeremiah 1:3: " It came of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto"
Jeremiah 1:4: "Then the word came unto me, saying,"
Jeremiah 1:11: "Moreover the word came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest"
Jeremiah 1:13: "And the word came unto me the second time, saying, What seest"
Jeremiah 2:1: "Moreover the word came to me, saying,"
Jeremiah 2:10: "and consider diligently, and see if there be such"
Jeremiah 2:14: "is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?"
Jeremiah 2:28: "for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah."
Jeremiah 2:31: "ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness?"
Jeremiah 3:1: "his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return"
Jeremiah 3:3: "Therefore the showers and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore's forehead,"
Jeremiah 3:9: " And it came to pass of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery"
Jeremiah 3:16: " And it shall come to pass, ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith"
Jeremiah 4:9: " And it shall come to pass day, saith the LORD, that the heart of the king shall perish,"
Jeremiah 4:10: "this people and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall have peace; whereas the sword reacheth"
Jeremiah 4:17: "As keepers are they against her round about; because she hath been rebellious"
Jeremiah 4:27: "said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end."
Jeremiah 5:8: " They were horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's"
Jeremiah 5:13: "And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done"
Jeremiah 5:19: " And it shall come to pass, ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God"
Jeremiah 5:23: "But this hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone."
Jeremiah 5:30: "A wonderful is committed in the land;"
Jeremiah 6:10: "hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight"
Jeremiah 7:1: "The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD,"
Jeremiah 7:11: "is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold,"
Jeremiah 7:23: "commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be"
Jeremiah 7:23: "my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all"
