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 49:13: "the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse;"
Jeremiah 49:13: "and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes."
Jeremiah 49:17: "Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss"
Jeremiah 49:22: "shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs."
Jeremiah 49:32: "And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all"
Jeremiah 49:33: "And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation forever: there shall no"
Jeremiah 49:34: "The word that came to Jeremiah the prophet against"
Jeremiah 49:36: "and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither"
Jeremiah 49:39: " But it shall come to pass days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith"
Jeremiah 50:3: "her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart,"
Jeremiah 50:6: "My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains:"
Jeremiah 50:8: "of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the he goats before"
Jeremiah 50:10: "And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 50:13: "Because of the wrath it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one"
Jeremiah 50:23: "and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!"
Jeremiah 50:26: "cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly: let nothing of her be left."
Jeremiah 50:29: "camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work;"
Jeremiah 50:37: "the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures;"
Jeremiah 51:2: "for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about."
Jeremiah 51:26: "nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate forever, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 51:30: "in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwelling places; her bars"
Jeremiah 51:37: "And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and a hissing, without"
Jeremiah 51:41: "surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!"
Jeremiah 51:43: "Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein"
Jeremiah 51:62: "place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor"
Jeremiah 51:62: "in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate forever."
Jeremiah 51:63: " And it shall be, of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone"
Jeremiah 52:3: "the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out"
Jeremiah 52:4: " And it came to pass year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month,"
Jeremiah 52:6: "the famine was sore in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land."
Jeremiah 52:20: "the brass of all these vessels was without weight."
Jeremiah 52:23: " And there were and six pomegranates on a side; and all the pomegranates upon"
Jeremiah 52:25: "a eunuch, which had the charge of the men of war;"
Jeremiah 52:31: " And it came to pass and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah,"
Lamentations 1:1: "solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess"
Lamentations 1:1: "among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!"
Lamentations 1:2: "she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies."
Lamentations 1:5: "Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted"
Lamentations 1:6: "her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture,"
Lamentations 1:7: "all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people"
Lamentations 1:8: "Jerusalem therefore she is removed: all"
Lamentations 1:11: "O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile."
Lamentations 1:16: "is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed."
Lamentations 1:17: "that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among"
Lamentations 1:21: "it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me."
Lamentations 2:5: "The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces:"
Lamentations 2:22: "so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that"
Lamentations 3:14: " I was to all my people; and their song all the day."
Lamentations 3:37: "Who that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?"
Lamentations 3:47: "Fear is come upon us, desolation and destruction."
