Strong's #5769: `owlam (pronounced o-lawm')
or lolam {o-lawm'}; from 5956; properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always:--alway(-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, (n-))ever(-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare 5331, 5703.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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‛ôlâm
1) long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world
1a) ancient time, long time (of past)
1b) (of future)
1b1) for ever, always
1b2) continuous existence, perpetual
1b3) everlasting, indefinite or unending future, eternity
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H5956
Usage:
This word is used 438 times:
Leviticus 25:46: "after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen forever: but over your brethren the children of Israel,"
Numbers 10:8: "with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your generations."
Numbers 15:15: "and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance forever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before"
Numbers 18:8: "them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance forever."
Numbers 18:11: "and to thy daughters with thee, by a statute forever: every one that is clean in thy house shall eat"
Numbers 18:19: "and thy daughters with thee, by a statute forever: it is a covenant of salt forever"
Numbers 18:19: "it is a covenant of salt forever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with"
Numbers 18:23: "shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, that among the children of Israel"
Numbers 19:10: "that sojourneth among them, for a statute forever."
Numbers 19:21: "And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes;"
Numbers 25:13: "it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous"
Deuteronomy 5:29: "always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!"
Deuteronomy 12:28: "it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee forever, when thou doest that which is good"
Deuteronomy 13:16: "thy God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again."
Deuteronomy 15:17: "unto the door, and he shall be thy servant forever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise."
Deuteronomy 23:3: "enter into the congregation of the LORD forever:"
Deuteronomy 23:6: "nor their prosperity all thy days forever."
Deuteronomy 28:46: "upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever."
Deuteronomy 29:29: "our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all"
Deuteronomy 32:7: "Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask"
Deuteronomy 32:40: "and say, I live forever."
Deuteronomy 33:15: "And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,"
Deuteronomy 33:27: "God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy"
Joshua 4:7: "shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel forever."
Joshua 8:28: "Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation unto this day."
Joshua 14:9: "have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's forever, because thou hast wholly"
Joshua 24:2: "dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham,"
Judges 2:1: "the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break"
1 Samuel 1:22: "before the LORD, and there abide forever."
1 Samuel 2:30: "of thy father, should walk before me forever: but now the LORD saith,"
1 Samuel 3:13: "will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knoweth;"
1 Samuel 3:14: "be purged with sacrifice nor offering forever."
1 Samuel 13:13: "thy kingdom upon Israel forever."
1 Samuel 20:15: "thy kindness from my house forever: no, not when the LORD"
1 Samuel 20:23: "of, behold, the LORD be between thee and me forever."
1 Samuel 20:42: "me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed forever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan"
1 Samuel 27:8: "and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants"
1 Samuel 27:12: "utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever."
2 Samuel 3:28: "I and my kingdom are guiltless before the LORD forever"
2 Samuel 7:13: "the throne of his kingdom forever."
2 Samuel 7:16: "And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee: thy throne shall be"
2 Samuel 7:16: "before thee: thy throne shall be established forever."
2 Samuel 7:24: "thy people Israel to be a people unto thee forever: and thou, LORD, art become"
2 Samuel 7:25: "and concerning his house, establish it, forever, and do as thou hast said."
2 Samuel 7:26: "And let thy name be magnified forever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God"
2 Samuel 7:29: "the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee: for thou, O Lord"
2 Samuel 7:29: "it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed forever."
2 Samuel 12:10: "Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house;"
2 Samuel 22:51: "to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed forevermore."
2 Samuel 23:5: "God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure:"
