Strongs H1961

← H1961 ↑ →

הָיָה (hâyâh) v (haw-yaw)
Source: a primitive root (compare H1933);
Meaning: to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
KJV: beacon, × altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, follow, happen, × have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, × use.

Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon entry

Type: root
הָיָה 3570 vb. fall out, come to pass, become, beQalFall out, happenoccur, take place, come about, come to passesp. & very oft., come about, come to passוַיְהִי and it came to pass that, most often (c. 292 t.)rarely also Pf. c. וְ conj. וְהָיָהless oft. וְהָיָה Pf. consec. and it shall come to pass, or frequentat. came to pass (repeatedly, etc.)Come into being, becomeabs., in lively narrative, arise, appear, comesq. prep.becomesq. pred. noun (to be viewed as implicit accus.)sq. pred. adj.become likesq. pred. לְ pers.sq. לְ pred.oft. c. לְ pred. לְ pers.with עַל and לְsts. c. לְ pers. only = became the property of, come into the possession ofBe (often with subbordinate idea of becoming)exist, be in existenceabide, remain, continuewith word of locality, be in or at a place, be situated, stand, lieas copula, joining subj. & pred.periphrastic conjug.Niph.either be done, be brought about, or occur, come to passbe done, finished, gone {224}

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