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:
Jeremiah 7:24: "and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward."
Jeremiah 7:33: "And the carcasses people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts"
Jeremiah 7:34: "of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate."
Jeremiah 8:2: "be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth."
Jeremiah 11:1: "The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD,"
Jeremiah 11:4: "Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people,"
Jeremiah 11:4: "them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:"
Jeremiah 11:13: "For of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets"
Jeremiah 11:23: " And there shall be remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men"
Jeremiah 12:8: "Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore"
Jeremiah 12:15: " And it shall come to pass, I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man"
Jeremiah 12:16: " And it shall come to pass, they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear"
Jeremiah 13:3: "And the word came unto me the second time, saying,"
Jeremiah 13:6: " And it came to pass many days, that the LORD said unto"
Jeremiah 13:8: "Then the word came unto me, saying,"
Jeremiah 13:10: "gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good"
Jeremiah 13:11: "of Judah, saith the LORD; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory:"
Jeremiah 14:1: "The word that came to Jeremiah concerning"
Jeremiah 14:4: "is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen"
Jeremiah 14:5: "in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass."
Jeremiah 14:8: "thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside"
Jeremiah 14:9: "Why shouldest thou be as a man astonished, as a mighty man that cannot save?"
Jeremiah 14:13: "see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured"
Jeremiah 14:15: "Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine"
Jeremiah 14:16: "they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because"
Jeremiah 15:2: " And it shall come to pass, they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell"
Jeremiah 15:16: "and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for"
Jeremiah 15:18: "Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed?"
Jeremiah 15:18: "incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters"
Jeremiah 15:18: "incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters"
Jeremiah 15:19: "thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto"
Jeremiah 16:1: "The word came also unto me, saying,"
Jeremiah 16:2: "thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place."
Jeremiah 16:4: "upon the face of the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their carcasses"
Jeremiah 16:10: " And it shall come to pass, thou shalt show this people all these"
Jeremiah 17:6: " For he shall be in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh;"
Jeremiah 17:7: "in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is."
Jeremiah 17:8: " For he shall be planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by"
Jeremiah 17:8: "heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year"
Jeremiah 17:11: "them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool."
Jeremiah 17:16: "knowest: that which came out of my lips was right before"
Jeremiah 17:17: " Be a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil."
Jeremiah 17:24: " And it shall come to pass, ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in"
Jeremiah 18:1: "The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD,"
Jeremiah 18:5: "Then the word came to me, saying,"
Jeremiah 18:21: "the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be"
Jeremiah 18:21: "bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain"
Jeremiah 18:23: "blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal"
Jeremiah 19:13: "and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all"
Jeremiah 20:3: " And it came to pass that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of"
