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:
Exodus 14:24: " And it came to pass, watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians"
Exodus 15:2: "The LORD and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation;"
Exodus 16:5: " And it shall come to pass, day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be"
Exodus 16:5: "that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather"
Exodus 16:10: " And it came to pass, spoke unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel,"
Exodus 16:13: " And it came to pass, the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning"
Exodus 16:13: "the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host."
Exodus 16:22: " And it came to pass, day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers"
Exodus 16:24: "bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm"
Exodus 16:26: "it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none."
Exodus 16:27: " And it came to pass, some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found"
Exodus 17:11: " And it came to pass, Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when"
Exodus 17:12: "on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until"
Exodus 18:3: "was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:"
Exodus 18:13: " And it came to pass that Moses sat to judge the people:"
Exodus 18:16: "When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one"
Exodus 18:19: "unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people"
Exodus 18:19: "and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to Godward,"
Exodus 18:22: "the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring"
Exodus 19:5: "ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all"
Exodus 19:6: "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words"
Exodus 19:11: " And be against the third day: for the third day the LORD"
Exodus 19:15: "And he said the people, Be ready against the third day: come"
Exodus 19:16: " And it came to pass day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick"
Exodus 19:16: "day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud"
Exodus 19:19: " And when of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke,"
Exodus 20:3: " Thou shalt have other gods before"
Exodus 20:20: "prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not."
Exodus 21:4: "daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself."
Exodus 21:22: "depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's"
Exodus 21:23: "And if follow, then thou shalt give life for life,"
Exodus 21:34: "money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be"
Exodus 21:36: "he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be"
Exodus 22:11: "Then shall an oath be between them both, that he hath not put"
Exodus 22:21: "nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
Exodus 22:24: "and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless."
Exodus 22:25: "poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon"
Exodus 22:27: "for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear;"
Exodus 22:30: "and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day"
Exodus 22:31: " And ye shall be men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field;"
Exodus 23:1: "thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness."
Exodus 23:2: "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in"
Exodus 23:9: "the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt."
Exodus 23:26: "There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days"
Exodus 23:29: "thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field"
Exodus 23:33: "if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare"
Exodus 24:12: "Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables"
Exodus 24:18: "into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty"
Exodus 25:15: "The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from"
Exodus 25:20: "And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat"
