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:
Daniel 8:7: "him, but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand."
Daniel 8:15: " And it came to pass, Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning,"
Daniel 8:19: "I will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the indignation: for at the time appointed"
Daniel 8:27: "And I fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did"
Daniel 9:2: "whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish"
Daniel 10:2: "I Daniel was mourning three full weeks."
Daniel 10:4: "of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river,"
Daniel 10:7: "the vision: for the men that were with me saw not"
Daniel 10:9: "the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face,"
Daniel 11:17: "her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be"
Daniel 11:29: "and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter."
Daniel 11:42: "and the land of Egypt shall not escape."
Daniel 12:1: "for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never"
Daniel 12:1: "of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to"
Daniel 12:1: "such as never was since there was since there was a nation even to that same"
Hosea 1:1: "The word that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri,"
Hosea 1:5: " And it shall come to pass day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley"
Hosea 1:9: "my people, and I will not be"
Hosea 1:10: "Yet the number of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot"
Hosea 1:10: "be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye"
Hosea 2:16: " And it shall be day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call"
Hosea 2:21: " And it shall come to pass day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear"
Hosea 3:3: "thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for"
Hosea 4:9: " And there shall be, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings."
Hosea 5:1: "for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread"
Hosea 5:9: "Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known"
Hosea 5:10: "The princes were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon"
Hosea 7:2: "now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face."
Hosea 7:8: "hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned."
Hosea 7:11: "Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt,"
Hosea 7:16: "They return, to the most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall"
Hosea 8:6: "God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces."
Hosea 8:8: "Israel now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure."
Hosea 8:11: "altars to sin, altars shall be unto him to sin."
Hosea 9:10: "and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved."
Hosea 9:17: "because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations."
Hosea 11:4: "of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws,"
Hosea 12:11: "Is there iniquity surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal;"
Hosea 13:3: "Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff"
Hosea 13:7: " Therefore I will be a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe"
Hosea 14:5: " I will be unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon."
Hosea 14:6: "His branches and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon."
Joel 1:1: "The word that came to Joel the son of Pethuel."
Joel 1:2: "ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?"
Joel 2:2: "people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither"
Joel 2:3: "wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape"
Joel 2:28: " And it shall come to pass that I will pour out my spirit upon all"
Joel 2:32: " And it shall come to pass, shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for"
Joel 2:32: "for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD"
Joel 3:17: "my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through"
