הָיָה hâyâh

Meaning

to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

In the King James Version: beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.

Derivation: a primitive root (compare H1933 (הָוָא));

Where it is used

• Exodus 16:22 On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much food—two omers per person—and all the leaders of the congregation came and reported this to Moses.
• Exodus 16:24 So they set it aside until morning as Moses had commanded, and it did not smell or contain any maggots.
• Exodus 16:26 For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there.”
• Exodus 16:27 Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.
• Exodus 17:11 As long as Moses held up his hands, Israel prevailed; but when he lowered them, Amalek prevailed.
• Exodus 17:12 When Moses’ hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held his hands up, one on each side, so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.
• Exodus 18:3 along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
• Exodus 18:13 The next day Moses took his seat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.
• Exodus 18:16 “Whenever they have a dispute, it is brought to me to judge between one man and another, and I make known to them the statutes and laws of God.”
• Exodus 18:19 Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their causes to Him.
• Exodus 18:22 Have these men judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you any major issue, but all minor cases they can judge on their own, so that your load may be lightened as they share it with you.
• Exodus 19:5 Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
• Exodus 19:6 And unto Me you shall be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to speak to the Israelites.”
• Exodus 19:11 and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
• Exodus 19:15 “Be prepared for the third day,” he said to the people. “Do not draw near to a woman.”
• Exodus 19:16 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning. A thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a very loud blast of the ram’s horn went out, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
• Exodus 19:19 And as the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.
• Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me.
• Exodus 20:20 “Do not be afraid,” Moses replied. “For God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you, to keep you from sinning.”
• Exodus 21:4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
• Exodus 21:22 If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
• Exodus 21:23 But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—
• Exodus 21:34 the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.
• Exodus 21:36 But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.
• Exodus 22:11 an oath before the LORD shall be made between the parties to determine whether or not the man has taken his neighbor’s property. The owner must accept the oath and require no restitution.
• Exodus 22:21 You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
• Exodus 22:24 My anger will be kindled, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will become widows and your children will be fatherless.
• Exodus 22:25 If you lend money to one of My people among you who is poor, you must not act as a creditor to him; you are not to charge him interest.
• Exodus 22:27 because his cloak is the only covering he has for his body. What else will he sleep in? And if he cries out to Me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
• Exodus 22:30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.
• Exodus 22:31 You are to be My holy people. You must not eat the meat of a mauled animal found in the field; you are to throw it to the dogs.
• Exodus 23:1 “You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness.
• Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
• Exodus 23:9 Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
• Exodus 23:26 No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days.
• Exodus 23:29 I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you.
• Exodus 23:33 They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
• Exodus 24:12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”
• Exodus 24:18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.
• Exodus 25:15 The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed.
• Exodus 25:20 And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.
• Exodus 25:27 The rings are to be close to the rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.
• Exodus 25:31 Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold. It shall be made of one piece, including its base and shaft, its cups, and its buds and petals.
• Exodus 25:36 The buds and branches are to be all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
• Exodus 26:3 Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five joined as well.
• Exodus 26:6 Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
• Exodus 26:11 Make fifty bronze clasps and put them through the loops to join the tent together as a unit.
• Exodus 26:13 And the tent curtains will be a cubit longer on either side, and the excess will hang over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it.
• Exodus 26:24 coupled together from bottom to top and fitted into a single ring. These will serve as the two corners.
• Exodus 26:25 So there are to be eight frames and sixteen silver bases—two under each frame.
• Exodus 27:1 “You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
• Exodus 27:2 Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.
• Exodus 27:5 Set the grate beneath the ledge of the altar, so that the mesh comes halfway up the altar.
• Exodus 27:7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so that the poles are on two sides of the altar when it is carried.
• Exodus 28:7 It shall have two shoulder pieces attached at two of its corners, so it can be fastened.
• Exodus 28:8 And the skillfully woven waistband of the ephod must be of one piece, of the same workmanship—with gold, with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and with finely spun linen.
• Exodus 28:16 It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
• Exodus 28:20 and in the fourth row a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. Mount these stones in gold filigree settings.
• Exodus 28:21 The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
• Exodus 28:28 The rings of the breastpiece shall be tied to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece is above the waistband of the ephod and does not swing out from the ephod.