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:
Lamentations 4:8: "cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick."
Lamentations 4:9: "They that be slain are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these"
Lamentations 4:10: "women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people."
Lamentations 4:19: "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon"
Lamentations 5:1: "Remember, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
Lamentations 5:3: " We are and fatherless, our mothers are as widows."
Lamentations 5:17: "For our heart is faint; for these things our eyes"
Ezekiel 1:1: " Now it came to pass year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among"
Ezekiel 1:3: "The word came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son"
Ezekiel 1:3: "The word came expressly came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son"
Ezekiel 1:3: "the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon"
Ezekiel 1:12: "forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned"
Ezekiel 1:16: "and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel."
Ezekiel 1:20: "Whithersoever was to go, they went, thither"
Ezekiel 1:25: " And there was from the firmament that was over their heads,"
Ezekiel 1:28: "As the appearance that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so"
Ezekiel 2:5: "house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among"
Ezekiel 2:8: "I say unto thee; Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house:"
Ezekiel 3:3: "I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness."
Ezekiel 3:16: " And it came to pass of seven days, that the word of the LORD came"
Ezekiel 3:16: "of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 3:22: "And the hand was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise,"
Ezekiel 3:26: "the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they"
Ezekiel 4:3: "thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This"
Ezekiel 5:15: " So it shall be and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about"
Ezekiel 5:16: "arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send"
Ezekiel 6:1: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 6:8: "Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries."
Ezekiel 6:13: "I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars,"
Ezekiel 7:1: "Moreover the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 7:4: "I will recompense thy ways upon thee, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 7:9: "I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 7:16: "But they that escape and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all"
Ezekiel 7:19: "in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not"
Ezekiel 7:19: "fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity."
Ezekiel 7:26: "upon mischief, and rumor shall be upon rumor; then shall they seek a vision"
Ezekiel 8:1: " And it came to pass year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat"
Ezekiel 9:3: "from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold"
Ezekiel 9:8: " And it came to pass, them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried,"
Ezekiel 10:6: " And it came to pass, the man clothed with linen, saying, Take"
Ezekiel 10:10: "likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel."
Ezekiel 11:11: "This be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst"
Ezekiel 11:11: "be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in"
Ezekiel 11:13: " And it came to pass, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon"
Ezekiel 11:14: "Again the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 11:16: "and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where"
Ezekiel 11:20: "mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God."
Ezekiel 11:20: "and they shall be my people, and I will be their God."
Ezekiel 12:1: "The word also came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 12:8: "And in the morning came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,"
