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:
Joel 3:18: " And it shall come to pass day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow"
Joel 3:19: "Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for"
Joel 3:19: "a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence"
Amos 1:1: "The words who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which"
Amos 3:6: "and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not"
Amos 4:11: "Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning:"
Amos 5:5: "Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to naught."
Amos 5:14: "the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken."
Amos 6:9: " And it shall come to pass, there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die."
Amos 7:2: " And it came to pass, they had made an end of eating the grass of the land, then I said,"
Amos 7:3: "for this: It shall not be, saith the LORD."
Amos 7:6: "This also shall not be, saith the Lord GOD."
Amos 8:9: " And it shall come to pass day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down"
Obadiah 1:16: "continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been."
Obadiah 1:16: "and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been."
Obadiah 1:17: "But upon mount shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob"
Obadiah 1:17: "shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess"
Obadiah 1:18: "And the house shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house"
Obadiah 1:18: "and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for"
Obadiah 1:21: "mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's."
Jonah 1:1: "Now the word came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,"
Jonah 1:4: "wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship"
Jonah 1:17: "Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days"
Jonah 3:1: "And the word came unto Jonah the second time, saying,"
Jonah 3:3: "according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three"
Jonah 4:2: "was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore"
Jonah 4:5: "it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city."
Jonah 4:6: "and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head,"
Jonah 4:8: " And it came to pass, did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind;"
Jonah 4:10: "labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished"
Micah 1:1: "The word that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days"
Micah 1:2: "and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple."
Micah 2:4: "with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion"
Micah 2:5: "Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the LORD."
Micah 2:11: "saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people."
Micah 3:12: "be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places"
Micah 4:1: "But in the last it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established"
Micah 4:1: "that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it"
Micah 5:2: "But thou, Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of"
Micah 5:2: "of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old,"
Micah 5:5: "And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when"
Micah 5:7: "And the remnant shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from"
Micah 5:8: "And the remnant shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion"
Micah 5:10: " And it shall come to pass day, saith the LORD, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst"
Micah 5:12: "And I will cut off out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:"
Micah 7:1: "Woe I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grape gleanings of the vintage: there is no"
Micah 7:4: "of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity."
Micah 7:10: "mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets."
Micah 7:13: "Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings."
Nahum 3:7: " And it shall come to pass, they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste:"
