Strong's numbers
הָיָה H1961
hâyâh
haw-yaw
a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); 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.
Brown–Driver–Briggs
הָיָה 3570 vb. fall out, come to pass, become, be
Qal
I
1
a Fall out, happen
b occur, take place, come about, come to pass
2 esp. & very oft., come about, come to pass
a
(1) וַיְהִי and it came to pass that, most often (c. 292 t.)
(2) rarely also Pf. c. וְ conj. וְהָיָה
b less oft. וְהָיָה Pf. consec. and it shall come to pass, or frequentat. came to pass (repeatedly, etc.)
II Come into being, become
1
a abs., in lively narrative, arise, appear, come
b sq. prep.
2 become
a sq. pred. noun (to be viewed as implicit accus.)
b sq. pred. adj.
c become like
d sq. pred. לְ pers.
e sq. לְ pred.
f oft. c. לְ pred. לְ pers.
g with עַל and לְ
h sts. c. לְ pers. only = became the property of, come into the possession of
III Be (often with subbordinate idea of becoming)
1 exist, be in existence
2 abide, remain, continue
3 with word of locality, be in or at a place, be situated, stand, lie
4 as copula, joining subj. & pred.
5 periphrastic conjug.
Niph.
1 either be done, be brought about, or occur, come to pass
2 be done, finished, gone
From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.
72 occurrences
Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.
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Genesis 1:2
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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Genesis 1:3
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
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Genesis 1:29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
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Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
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Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
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Genesis 4:14
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
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Genesis 9:26
And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
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Genesis 10:8
And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
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Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
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Genesis 13:3
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;