הָיָה

hayah (haw-yaw) v.
1. to exist
2. to be or become
3. to come into being, i.e. to happen, to occur (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
[a primitive root]
KJV: 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. 
Compare: H1933

• Part of speech: verb
• Occurrences: 3,575

• Genesis 1:2

From Strong's Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary (1890), which is public domain. This bundle carries the words that spell biblical names and the roots they are built from; the full lexicon of 8,674 entries ships as a bulk table.