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 20:7: "me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one"
Jeremiah 20:8: "and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily."
Jeremiah 20:9: "speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up"
Jeremiah 20:14: "wherein my mother bore me be blessed."
Jeremiah 20:16: "And let that be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented"
Jeremiah 20:17: "me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always"
Jeremiah 21:1: "The word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,"
Jeremiah 21:9: "that besiege you, he shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey."
Jeremiah 22:5: "that this house shall become a desolation."
Jeremiah 22:24: "the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were the signet upon my right"
Jeremiah 23:9: "all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine"
Jeremiah 23:10: "the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not"
Jeremiah 23:12: "Wherefore shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for"
Jeremiah 23:14: "that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom,"
Jeremiah 23:17: "They say still me, The LORD hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one"
Jeremiah 23:36: "for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words"
Jeremiah 24:4: "Again the word came unto me, saying,"
Jeremiah 24:7: "me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:"
Jeremiah 24:7: "and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto"
Jeremiah 25:1: "The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the people"
Jeremiah 25:3: "and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto"
Jeremiah 25:11: "And this land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations"
Jeremiah 25:12: " And it shall come to pass, years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon,"
Jeremiah 25:28: " And it shall be, they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink,"
Jeremiah 25:33: "And the slain shall be at that day from one end of the earth"
Jeremiah 25:33: "neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon"
Jeremiah 25:38: "as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness"
Jeremiah 26:1: "of Josiah king of Judah came this word from"
Jeremiah 26:8: " Now it came to pass, had made an end of speaking all that the LORD"
Jeremiah 26:9: "saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate"
Jeremiah 26:18: "Micah prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah,"
Jeremiah 26:18: "Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house"
Jeremiah 26:20: " And there was a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son"
Jeremiah 26:24: "of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give"
Jeremiah 27:1: "of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah"
Jeremiah 27:8: " And it shall come to pass, and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar"
Jeremiah 27:17: "wherefore should this city be laid waste?"
Jeremiah 27:22: "They shall be carried and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith"
Jeremiah 28:1: " And it came to pass year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah,"
Jeremiah 28:8: "The prophets have been before me and before thee of old prophesied"
Jeremiah 28:12: "Then the word came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet"
Jeremiah 29:7: "the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace."
Jeremiah 29:26: "in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every"
Jeremiah 29:30: " Then came of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,"
Jeremiah 29:32: "Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among"
Jeremiah 30:1: "The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD,"
Jeremiah 30:8: " For it shall come to pass day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke"
Jeremiah 30:16: "of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give"
Jeremiah 30:20: "Their children also shall be as formerly, and their congregation shall be established before me, and I will punish"
Jeremiah 30:21: "And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near,"
