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 18:13: "abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be"
Ezekiel 18:20: "of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be"
Ezekiel 18:20: "upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon"
Ezekiel 18:30: "yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin."
Ezekiel 19:3: "And she brought up of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch"
Ezekiel 19:6: "And he went up and down the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey,"
Ezekiel 19:10: "planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters."
Ezekiel 19:11: " And she had rods for the scepters of them that bore rule, and her stature was exalted"
Ezekiel 19:14: "to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."
Ezekiel 19:14: "of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod"
Ezekiel 20:1: " And it came to pass year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders"
Ezekiel 20:2: " Then came of the LORD unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 20:12: "them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that"
Ezekiel 20:20: "And hallow and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I"
Ezekiel 20:24: "and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols."
Ezekiel 20:32: "your mind shall not be at all, that ye say,"
Ezekiel 20:32: "your mind shall not be at all, be at all, that ye say,"
Ezekiel 20:32: "be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries,"
Ezekiel 20:45: "Moreover the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 21:1: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 21:7: " And it shall be, they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou?"
Ezekiel 21:7: "shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 21:8: "Again the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 21:10: "make a sore slaughter; it is furbished that it may glitter: should we then make mirth?"
Ezekiel 21:12: "of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes"
Ezekiel 21:12: "terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore"
Ezekiel 21:13: "the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord GOD."
Ezekiel 21:18: "The word came unto me again, saying,"
Ezekiel 21:22: "At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth"
Ezekiel 21:23: " And it shall be divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance"
Ezekiel 21:27: "overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose"
Ezekiel 21:32: " Thou shalt be to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no"
Ezekiel 21:32: "to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered:"
Ezekiel 22:1: "Moreover the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 22:6: "of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood."
Ezekiel 22:9: " In thee are that carry tales to shed blood: and in thee they eat upon"
Ezekiel 22:13: "and at thy blood which hath been in the midst"
Ezekiel 22:17: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 22:18: "the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin,"
Ezekiel 22:18: "and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver."
Ezekiel 22:19: "GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather"
Ezekiel 22:23: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 23:1: "The word came again unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 23:2: "Son there were two women, the daughters of one mother:"
Ezekiel 23:4: "the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. Thus were their names;"
Ezekiel 23:10: "and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment"
Ezekiel 23:32: "cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much."
Ezekiel 24:1: "day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 24:7: "For is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock;"
Ezekiel 24:15: "Also the word came unto me, saying,"
