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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Numbers 15:40
That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.
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Numbers 31:16
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 4:32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
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Deuteronomy 27:9
And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.
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Joshua 22:20
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
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Judges 12:2
And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon; and when I called you, ye delivered me not out of their hands.
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Judges 14:17
And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.
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Judges 18:19
And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?
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Judges 19:30
And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.
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Judges 20:3
(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?