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 37:13: "And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name"
Jeremiah 38:2: "to the Chaldeans shall live; for he shall have his life for a prey, and shall live."
Jeremiah 38:28: "that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken."
Jeremiah 39:4: " And it came to pass, Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men"
Jeremiah 39:15: "Now the word came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court"
Jeremiah 39:15: "came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,"
Jeremiah 39:16: "for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before"
Jeremiah 39:18: "thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust"
Jeremiah 40:1: "The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD,"
Jeremiah 40:3: "his voice, therefore this thing is come"
Jeremiah 41:1: " Now it came to pass month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama,"
Jeremiah 41:2: "and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah"
Jeremiah 41:3: "all the Jews that were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah,"
Jeremiah 41:4: " And it came to pass day after he had slain Gedaliah, and no man"
Jeremiah 41:6: "to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said unto"
Jeremiah 41:7: " And it was into the midst of the city, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah"
Jeremiah 41:13: " Now it came to pass, the people which were with Ishmael saw"
Jeremiah 42:4: "the LORD your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the LORD"
Jeremiah 42:5: "to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if"
Jeremiah 42:7: " And it came to pass ten days, that the word of the LORD came"
Jeremiah 42:7: "ten days, that the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah."
Jeremiah 42:16: " Then it shall come to pass, which ye feared, shall overtake you there"
Jeremiah 42:17: " So shall it be the men that set their faces to go into"
Jeremiah 42:17: "by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from"
Jeremiah 42:18: "shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment,"
Jeremiah 43:1: " And it came to pass, had made an end of speaking unto all the people"
Jeremiah 43:8: " Then came of the LORD unto Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying,"
Jeremiah 44:1: "The word came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews"
Jeremiah 44:6: "of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day."
Jeremiah 44:8: "to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all"
Jeremiah 44:12: "even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse,"
Jeremiah 44:14: "of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land"
Jeremiah 44:17: "in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well,"
Jeremiah 44:22: "and because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation,"
Jeremiah 44:26: "that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man"
Jeremiah 46:1: "The word which came to Jeremiah the prophet against"
Jeremiah 46:2: "king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish,"
Jeremiah 46:19: "furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without"
Jeremiah 47:1: "The word that came to Jeremiah the prophet against"
Jeremiah 47:2: "waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow"
Jeremiah 48:6: "Flee, your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness."
Jeremiah 48:9: "it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell"
Jeremiah 48:19: "and her that escapeth, and say, What is"
Jeremiah 48:26: "in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision."
Jeremiah 48:27: "For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for"
Jeremiah 48:28: "the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's"
Jeremiah 48:34: "of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate."
Jeremiah 48:39: "the back with shame! so shall Moab be a derision and a dismaying to all them about"
Jeremiah 48:41: "in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs."
Jeremiah 49:2: "in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters"
