Strong's #8548: tamiyd (pronounced taw-meed')
from an unused root meaning to stretch; properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); ellipt. the regular (daily) sacrifice:--alway(-s), continual (employment, -ly), daily, ((n-))ever(-more), perpetual.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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tâmı̂yd
1) continuity, perpetuity, to stretch
1a) continually, continuously (as adverb)
1b) continuity (substantive)
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to stretch
Usage:
This word is used 104 times:
Hosea 12:6: "and wait on thy God continually."
Obadiah 1:16: "so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not"
Nahum 3:19: "hath not thy wickedness passed continually?"
Habakkuk 1:17: "empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?"
