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:
Nahum 3:9: "and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers."
Nahum 3:11: "Thou shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek"
Habakkuk 1:3: "for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention."
Habakkuk 2:7: "that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties"
Habakkuk 3:4: "And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding"
Zephaniah 1:1: "The word which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi,"
Zephaniah 1:8: " And it shall come to pass of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's"
Zephaniah 1:10: " And it shall come to pass day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish"
Zephaniah 1:12: " And it shall come to pass time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish"
Zephaniah 1:13: "Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not"
Zephaniah 2:4: "For shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod"
Zephaniah 2:6: "And the sea shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks."
Zephaniah 2:7: "And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereupon: in the houses"
Zephaniah 2:9: "of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah,"
Zephaniah 2:15: "am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one"
Zephaniah 3:18: "I will gather for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of"
Haggai 1:1: "in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai"
Haggai 1:3: " Then came of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,"
Haggai 2:1: "and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet"
Haggai 2:9: "latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith"
Haggai 2:10: "month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai"
Haggai 2:16: "Since those days were, Since those days were, to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten:"
Haggai 2:16: "to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to"
Haggai 2:16: "the wine vat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty."
Haggai 2:20: "And again of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth"
Zechariah 1:1: "in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah,"
Zechariah 1:4: " Be as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried,"
Zechariah 1:7: "Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto"
Zechariah 2:5: "For I, the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be"
Zechariah 2:5: "unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst"
Zechariah 2:9: "mine hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil to their servants: and ye shall know that"
Zechariah 2:11: "the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know"
Zechariah 3:3: "Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel."
Zechariah 4:8: "Moreover the word came unto me, saying,"
Zechariah 6:9: "And the word came unto me, saying,"
Zechariah 6:13: "and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel"
Zechariah 6:13: "his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both."
Zechariah 6:14: "And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah,"
Zechariah 6:15: "of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice"
Zechariah 7:1: " And it came to pass year of king Darius, that the word of the LORD came"
Zechariah 7:1: "Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth"
Zechariah 7:4: " Then came of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying,"
Zechariah 7:7: "the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about"
Zechariah 7:8: "And the word came unto Zechariah, saying,"
Zechariah 7:12: "in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from"
Zechariah 7:13: " Therefore it is come to pass, he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not"
Zechariah 8:1: "Again the word of hosts came to me, saying,"
Zechariah 8:8: "in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God,"
Zechariah 8:8: "and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness."
Zechariah 8:10: "these days there was no hire for man, nor"
