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 24:20: "Then I answered of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 24:24: "Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh,"
Ezekiel 24:27: "to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know"
Ezekiel 25:1: "The word came again unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 26:1: " And it came to pass year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD"
Ezekiel 26:1: "in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 26:5: " It shall be of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken"
Ezekiel 26:5: "it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations."
Ezekiel 26:14: "And I will make of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no"
Ezekiel 26:17: "of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she"
Ezekiel 27:1: "The word came again unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 27:7: "Fine linen from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail;"
Ezekiel 27:7: "from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple"
Ezekiel 27:7: "blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered"
Ezekiel 27:8: "The inhabitants and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were"
Ezekiel 27:8: "thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots."
Ezekiel 27:9: "The ancients and the wise men thereof were in thee thy caulkers: all the ships"
Ezekiel 27:9: "all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise."
Ezekiel 27:10: "They of Persia and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged"
Ezekiel 27:11: "thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon"
Ezekiel 27:19: "iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market."
Ezekiel 27:36: "shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt be any more."
Ezekiel 28:1: "The word came again unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 28:11: "Moreover the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 28:13: " Thou hast been the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering,"
Ezekiel 28:14: "cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down"
Ezekiel 28:19: "thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more."
Ezekiel 28:20: "Again the word came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 28:24: " And there shall be more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving"
Ezekiel 29:1: "month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 29:6: "I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel."
Ezekiel 29:9: "And the land shall be desolate and waste; and they shall know that I"
Ezekiel 29:12: "among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter"
Ezekiel 29:14: "into the land of their habitation; and they shall be there a base kingdom."
Ezekiel 29:15: " It shall be of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above"
Ezekiel 29:16: " And it shall be more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance,"
Ezekiel 29:17: " And it came to pass and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word"
Ezekiel 29:17: "day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 29:18: "and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus,"
Ezekiel 29:19: "her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army."
Ezekiel 30:1: "The word came again unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 30:3: "is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen."
Ezekiel 30:4: "upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt,"
Ezekiel 30:7: "of the countries that are desolate, and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted."
Ezekiel 30:9: "the careless Ethiopians afraid, and great pain shall come upon them, as in the day of Egypt: for,"
Ezekiel 30:13: "and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince"
Ezekiel 30:16: "Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses"
Ezekiel 30:20: " And it came to pass year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word"
Ezekiel 30:20: "month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,"
Ezekiel 31:1: " And it came to pass year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word"
