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:
Zechariah 8:13: " And it shall come to pass, ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house"
Zechariah 8:13: "And it shall come to pass, ye were a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house"
Zechariah 8:13: "of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands"
Zechariah 8:18: "And the word of hosts came unto me, saying,"
Zechariah 8:19: "of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness,"
Zechariah 9:7: "his teeth: but he that remaineth, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah,"
Zechariah 10:5: " And they shall be men, which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battle: and they shall fight, because"
Zechariah 10:6: "and I will bring them again to place them; for I have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off: for"
Zechariah 10:7: "And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine: yea, their children"
Zechariah 12:2: "unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah"
Zechariah 12:8: "of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David"
Zechariah 12:9: " And it shall come to pass day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations"
Zechariah 13:1: "In that there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants"
Zechariah 13:2: " And it shall come to pass day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off"
Zechariah 13:3: " And it shall come to pass, any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begot"
Zechariah 13:4: " And it shall come to pass day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision,"
Zechariah 13:8: " And it shall come to pass, the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off"
Zechariah 14:6: " And it shall come to pass day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:"
Zechariah 14:6: "day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:"
Zechariah 14:7: " But it shall be day which shall be known to the LORD, not day,"
Zechariah 14:7: "day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light."
Zechariah 14:7: "but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light."
Zechariah 14:8: " And it shall be day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;"
Zechariah 14:8: "the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be."
Zechariah 14:9: "And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day"
Zechariah 14:9: "the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one."
Zechariah 14:11: "And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited."
Zechariah 14:12: "And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all"
Zechariah 14:13: " And it shall come to pass day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold"
Zechariah 14:13: "that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor,"
Zechariah 14:15: "And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all"
Zechariah 14:15: "and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague."
Zechariah 14:16: " And it shall come to pass, that is left of all the nations which came against"
Zechariah 14:17: " And it shall be, will not come up of all the families of the earth"
Zechariah 14:17: "the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain."
Zechariah 14:18: "go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD"
Zechariah 14:19: "This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that"
Zechariah 14:20: "In that shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD;"
Zechariah 14:20: "and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar."
Zechariah 14:21: "in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all"
Zechariah 14:21: "them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house"
Malachi 1:9: "God that he will be gracious unto us: this hath been by your means: will he regard your"
Malachi 2:4: "commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD"
Malachi 2:5: "My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared"
Malachi 2:6: "The law was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips:"
Malachi 3:3: "and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness."
Malachi 3:5: "And I will come near you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers,"
Malachi 3:10: "the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove"
Malachi 3:12: "shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightful land, saith"
Malachi 3:17: " And they shall be the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up"
