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 30:22: " And ye shall be and I will be your God."
Jeremiah 30:22: "And ye shall be and I will be your God."
Jeremiah 31:1: "the families of Israel, and they shall be my people."
Jeremiah 31:1: "saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel,"
Jeremiah 31:9: "wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn."
Jeremiah 31:12: "of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow"
Jeremiah 31:28: " And it shall come to pass, I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy,"
Jeremiah 31:33: "and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people."
Jeremiah 31:33: "and will be their God, and they shall be my people."
Jeremiah 31:36: "then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being from being a nation before"
Jeremiah 32:1: "The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD"
Jeremiah 32:2: "besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison,"
Jeremiah 32:5: "Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD:"
Jeremiah 32:6: "The word of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
Jeremiah 32:24: "and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest"
Jeremiah 32:26: " Then came of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,"
Jeremiah 32:30: "of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before"
Jeremiah 32:31: "For city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of"
Jeremiah 32:38: " And they shall be and I will be their God:"
Jeremiah 32:38: "And they shall be and I will be their God:"
Jeremiah 33:1: "Moreover the word came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet"
Jeremiah 33:9: " And it shall be of joy, a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth,"
Jeremiah 33:12: "and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks"
Jeremiah 33:19: "And the word came unto Jeremiah, saying,"
Jeremiah 33:20: "and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;"
Jeremiah 33:21: "with David my servant, that he should not have that he should not have a son to reign upon"
Jeremiah 33:23: "Moreover the word came to Jeremiah, saying,"
Jeremiah 33:24: "he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no that they should be no more a nation before"
Jeremiah 34:1: "The word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,"
Jeremiah 34:5: "the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odors for thee; and they will lament"
Jeremiah 34:8: "This is the word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD,"
Jeremiah 34:12: "Therefore the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD,"
Jeremiah 34:16: "at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids."
Jeremiah 34:20: "of them that seek their life: and their dead bodies shall be for meat unto the fowls of the heaven, and to the beasts"
Jeremiah 35:1: "The word came unto Jeremiah from the LORD"
Jeremiah 35:7: "plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell"
Jeremiah 35:9: "houses for us to dwell in: neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:"
Jeremiah 35:11: " But it came to pass, king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said,"
Jeremiah 35:12: " Then came of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,"
Jeremiah 36:1: " And it came to pass year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,"
Jeremiah 36:1: "of Judah, that this word came unto Jeremiah from"
Jeremiah 36:9: " And it came to pass year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah,"
Jeremiah 36:16: " Now it came to pass, all the words, they were afraid both one"
Jeremiah 36:23: " And it came to pass, had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife,"
Jeremiah 36:27: "Then the word came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned"
Jeremiah 36:28: "the former words that were in the first roll, which"
Jeremiah 36:30: "Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne"
Jeremiah 36:30: "the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night"
Jeremiah 37:6: " Then came of the LORD unto the prophet Jeremiah, saying,"
Jeremiah 37:11: " And it came to pass, of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear"
