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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:

Proverbs 8:23: "I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth"
Proverbs 10:25: "so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation."
Proverbs 10:30: "The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth."
Proverbs 22:28: "Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set."
Proverbs 23:10: "Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:"
Proverbs 27:24: "For riches are not forever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?"
Ecclesiastes 1:4: "cometh: but the earth abideth forever."
Ecclesiastes 1:10: "is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before"
Ecclesiastes 2:16: "of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come"
Ecclesiastes 3:11: "also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no"
Ecclesiastes 3:14: "God doeth, it shall be forever: nothing can be put to"
Ecclesiastes 9:6: "neither have they any more a portion forever in any thing that is done under"
Ecclesiastes 12:5: "because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about"
Isaiah 9:7: "it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the LORD"
Isaiah 14:20: "thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned."
Isaiah 24:5: "changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant."
Isaiah 25:2: "a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built."
Isaiah 26:4: "forever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:"
Isaiah 30:8: "for the time to come forever and ever:"
Isaiah 32:14: "shall be for dens forever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture"
Isaiah 32:17: "of righteousness quietness and assurance forever."
Isaiah 33:14: "fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?"
Isaiah 34:10: "nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste;"
Isaiah 34:17: "hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it forever, from generation to generation shall they dwell"
Isaiah 35:10: "and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain"
Isaiah 40:8: "but the word of our God shall stand forever."
Isaiah 40:28: "known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends"
Isaiah 42:14: " I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy"
Isaiah 44:7: "and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come,"
Isaiah 45:17: "But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor"
Isaiah 45:17: "be ashamed nor confounded world without end."
Isaiah 46:9: "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none"
Isaiah 47:7: "And thou saidst, I shall be a lady forever: so that thou didst not lay these"
Isaiah 51:6: "therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not"
Isaiah 51:8: "them like wool: but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation."
Isaiah 51:9: "as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut"
Isaiah 51:11: "and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain"
Isaiah 54:8: "my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD"
Isaiah 55:3: "and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David."
Isaiah 55:13: "and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off."
Isaiah 56:5: "than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that"
Isaiah 57:11: "have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?"
Isaiah 57:16: "For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always wroth: for"
Isaiah 58:12: "And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations;"
Isaiah 59:21: "nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth"
Isaiah 60:15: "so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations."
Isaiah 60:19: "give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory."
Isaiah 60:20: "for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended."
Isaiah 60:21: "righteous: they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,"
Isaiah 61:4: "And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste"









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