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:
Ezekiel 12:17: "Moreover the word came to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 12:20: "shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and ye shall know that I"
Ezekiel 12:21: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 12:24: "For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering"
Ezekiel 12:26: "Again the word came to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 13:1: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 13:4: "O Israel, are like the foxes in the deserts."
Ezekiel 13:9: "And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies:"
Ezekiel 13:9: "and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written"
Ezekiel 13:11: "them which daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones,"
Ezekiel 13:13: "it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones"
Ezekiel 13:21: "my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand"
Ezekiel 14:2: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 14:10: "the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh"
Ezekiel 14:11: "be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be"
Ezekiel 14:11: "their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 14:12: "The word came again to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 14:14: "Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls"
Ezekiel 14:15: "to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through"
Ezekiel 14:16: "they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate."
Ezekiel 15:1: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 15:2: "Son What is the vine tree more than any"
Ezekiel 15:2: "more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?"
Ezekiel 15:5: "Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet"
Ezekiel 16:1: "Again the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 16:8: "thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest"
Ezekiel 16:15: "on every one that passed by; his it was."
Ezekiel 16:16: "thereupon: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be"
Ezekiel 16:19: "it before them for a sweet savor: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 16:22: "the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted"
Ezekiel 16:22: "when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood."
Ezekiel 16:23: " And it came to pass all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 16:31: "in every street; and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire;"
Ezekiel 16:34: "And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms:"
Ezekiel 16:34: "and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary."
Ezekiel 16:49: "Behold, was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness"
Ezekiel 16:49: "of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand"
Ezekiel 16:56: "For thy sister was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,"
Ezekiel 17:1: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 17:6: "And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned"
Ezekiel 17:6: "turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth"
Ezekiel 17:6: "him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth"
Ezekiel 17:7: " There was great eagle with great wings and many feathers:"
Ezekiel 17:8: "branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine."
Ezekiel 17:11: "Moreover the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 17:14: "That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant"
Ezekiel 17:23: "boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell"
Ezekiel 18:1: "The word came unto me again, saying,"
Ezekiel 18:3: "the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb"
Ezekiel 18:5: "But if be just, and do that which is lawful and right,"
