Bes vs. Be

The Egyptian god of music and revelry and the guardian deity of women in labor, often depicted as a dwarf.

To exist in actuality; have life or reality

Present tense inflected form of be: am or are.

To occupy a specified position

A bronze coin of the Roman Republic, worth two thirds of an as.

To remain in a certain state or situation undisturbed, untouched, or unmolested

To take place; occur

To go or come

To equal in identity

To have a specified significance

To belong to a specified class or group

To have or show a specified quality or characteristic

To seem to consist or be made of

To belong; befall

Used with the past participle of a transitive verb to form the passive voice

Used with the present participle of a verb to express a continuing action

Used with the infinitive of a verb to express intention, obligation, or future action

Used with the past participle of certain intransitive verbs to form a perfect tense

To exist; to have real existence, to be alive.

To exist.

(intransitive) To occupy a place.

(intransitive) To occur, to take place.

Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".

(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same.

Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same.

(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal.

(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal.

(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective.

(copulative) Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase.

(auxiliary) Used to form the passive voice.

(auxiliary) Used to form the continuous aspect.

Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs; this was more common in archaic use, especially with verbs indicating motion. "He is finished", and "He is gone" are common, but "He is come" is archaic.

Used to express future action as well as what is due to, intended to, or should happen.

(copulative) Used to link a subject to a measurement.

Used to state the age of a subject in years.

Used to indicate the time of day.

Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event.

Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was.

Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like.

To exist or behave in a certain way.

To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect.

. Also found in compounds, especially oaths, e.g. begorra.

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have existence.

To exist in a certain manner or relation, - whether as a reality or as a product of thought; to exist as the subject of a certain predicate, that is, as having a certain attribute, or as belonging to a certain sort, or as identical with what is specified, - a word or words for the predicate being annexed; as, to be happy; to be here; to be large, or strong; to be an animal; to be a hero; to be a nonentity; three and two are five; annihilation is the cessation of existence; that is the man.

To take place; to happen; as, the meeting was on Thursday.

To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to.

A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element

Have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun);

Be identical to; be someone or something;

Occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere;

Have an existence, be extant;

Happen, occur, take place;

Be identical or equivalent to;

Form or compose;

Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function;

Represent, as of a character on stage;

Spend or use time;

Have life, be alive;

To remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form;

Be priced at;