עוֹלָם (o.lam) means “forever: enduring” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: o-lawm' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
עוֹלָם · o.lam · forever: enduring
: enduring/eternal 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
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עוֹלָם · o.lam · Everlasting
This name means long duration, everlasting, perpetual Another name of ye.ho.vah (יהוה "LORD" H3068G)
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עוֹלָם · o.lam · forever: any time
: any_time 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
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עוֹלָם · o.lam · forever: antiquity
: old/ancient 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
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or עֹלָם; from H5956 (עָלַם); 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
KJV glosses: 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 ([phrase] without end). Compare H5331 (נֶצַח), H5703 (עַד).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| forever | 111 |
| endures forever | 44 |
| everlasting | 19 |
| an everlasting | 11 |
| of old | 10 |
| as a permanent | 8 |
| this is a permanent | 7 |
| a permanent | 6 |
| an ancient | 5 |
| as an everlasting | 5 |
| from everlasting | 5 |
| this is to be a permanent | 5 |
| for life | 4 |
| and ever | 3 |
| is a permanent | 3 |
| it is a permanent | 3 |
| long ago | 3 |
| the ancient | 3 |
| a perpetual | 2 |
| always | 2 |
| and everlasting | 2 |
| eternal | 2 |
| ever | 2 |
| is everlasting | 2 |
| o ancient | 2 |
| of the everlasting | 2 |
| permanent | 2 |
| the everlasting | 2 |
| with an everlasting | 2 |
| with everlasting | 2 |
| ages | 1 |
| all time | 1 |
| an enduring | 1 |
| an everlasting covenant | 1 |
| ancient times | 1 |
| and a permanent | 1 |
| and eternal | 1 |
| and never | 1 |
| and perpetual | 1 |
| are always | 1 |
| are forever | 1 |
| are from all eternity | 1 |
| are the everlasting | 1 |
| are their eternal | 1 |
| as a regular | 1 |
| as an eternal | 1 |
| but from everlasting | 1 |
| but with everlasting | 1 |
| by a permanent | 1 |
| elams | 1 |
| endure forever | 1 |
| eternity | 1 |
| even | 1 |
| for a permanent | 1 |
| for ages | 1 |
| for the ancient | 1 |
| forevermore | 1 |
| from age to age | 1 |
| from ages past | 1 |
| from ancient times | 1 |
| he will never | 1 |
| his eternal | 1 |
| i will forever | 1 |
| i will never | 1 |
| if we remain in our sins | 1 |
| in an everlasting | 1 |
| in the ages | 1 |
| is an everlasting | 1 |
| is the everlasting | 1 |
| it will belong permanently | 1 |
| it will never | 1 |
| lasting | 1 |
| leaving the ancient | 1 |
| like the ancient | 1 |
| like those long since | 1 |
| like those you never | 1 |
| long | 1 |
| long in the past | 1 |
| of antiquity | 1 |
| of eternity | 1 |
| of permanent | 1 |
| old | 1 |
| on the ancient | 1 |
| the eternal | 1 |
| the perpetual | 1 |
| they will always | 1 |
| to come | 1 |
| to everlasting | 1 |
| will never | 1 |
| with ancient | 1 |
| you a perpetual | 1 |
| you with an everlasting | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| for ever | 177 |
| ever | 59 |
| of old | 13 |
| everlasting | 11 |
| an everlasting | 10 |
| and ever | 8 |
| evermore | 7 |
| from everlasting | 7 |
| shall never | 6 |
| a perpetual | 5 |
| for evermore | 5 |
| the everlasting | 5 |
| thee for ever | 5 |
| for an everlasting | 4 |
| by a perpetual | 3 |
| shall be for ever | 3 |
| shall endure for ever | 3 |
| the old | 3 |
| alway | 2 |
| always | 2 |
| and everlasting | 2 |
| any more | 2 |
| for the old | 2 |
| i will never | 2 |
| let me never | 2 |
| of old time | 2 |
| of them for evermore | 2 |
| the ancient | 2 |
| them for ever | 2 |
| ye everlasting | 2 |
| about me for ever | 1 |
| an ancient | 1 |
| and a perpetual | 1 |
| and an everlasting | 1 |
| and it shall be a perpetual | 1 |
| and perpetual | 1 |
| and this shall be an everlasting | 1 |
| and to everlasting | 1 |
| any more for ever | 1 |
| as those that have been long | 1 |
| at any time | 1 |
| be for ever | 1 |
| because thou hast had a perpetual | 1 |
| but with everlasting | 1 |
| by an everlasting | 1 |
| even from everlasting | 1 |
| even of old | 1 |
| even the ancient | 1 |
| ever of old | 1 |
| for him for evermore | 1 |
| for of old time | 1 |
| for since the beginning of the world | 1 |
| him for ever | 1 |
| him he will ever | 1 |
| himself an everlasting | 1 |
| i have long time | 1 |
| i shall never | 1 |
| in a perpetual | 1 |
| in old time | 1 |
| in the world | 1 |
| in those is continuance | 1 |
| it perpetual | 1 |
| it shall be for ever | 1 |
| it shall never | 1 |
| let them ever | 1 |
| not for ever | 1 |
| not the ancient | 1 |
| not the old | 1 |
| of an everlasting | 1 |
| of ancient times | 1 |
| of elam | 1 |
| of the everlasting | 1 |
| of the lasting | 1 |
| of them for ever | 1 |
| shall be in everlasting | 1 |
| shall be theirs for a perpetual | 1 |
| shall be thine everlasting | 1 |
| shall be unto thee an everlasting | 1 |
| shall not always | 1 |
| shall surely be an everlasting | 1 |
| should have endured for ever | 1 |
| some to everlasting | 1 |
| that it may continue for ever | 1 |
| the perpetual | 1 |
| the world | 1 |
| thee an eternal | 1 |
| thee he shall never | 1 |
| thee of old | 1 |
| thee perpetual | 1 |
| thee unto me for ever | 1 |
| thee with an everlasting | 1 |
| their perpetual | 1 |
| them an everlasting | 1 |
| them to a perpetual | 1 |
| thereof shall be perpetual | 1 |
| this for ever | 1 |
| thou never | 1 |
| to everlasting | 1 |
| to his long | 1 |
| unto thee an everlasting | 1 |
| unto thee for ever | 1 |
| upon you and a perpetual | 1 |
| with an everlasting | 1 |
| with everlasting | 1 |
| with him for an everlasting | 1 |
| with me an everlasting | 1 |
| with them it shall be an everlasting | 1 |
| with us for ever | 1 |
| with you for perpetual | 1 |
| world | 1 |
| yet shalt thou never | 1 |
Page 7 of 9. 413 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
Read word by wordTrust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Read word by wordGo now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.
Read word by wordFor the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—
Read word by wordThe work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.
Read word by wordThe sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”
Read word by wordIt will not be quenched—day or night. Its smoke will ascend forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever again pass through it.
Read word by wordHe has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
Read word by wordSo the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
Read word by wordThe grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
Read word by wordDo you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
Read word by word“I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
Read word by wordWho then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take place.
Read word by wordBut Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation; you will not be put to shame or humiliated, to ages everlasting.
Read word by wordRemember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
Read word by wordYou said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
Read word by wordLift up your eyes to the heavens, and look at the earth below; for the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its people will die like gnats. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.
Read word by wordFor the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”
Read word by wordAwake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD. Wake up as in days past, as in generations of old. Was it not You who cut Rahab to pieces, who pierced through the dragon?
Read word by wordSo the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
Read word by wordIn a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
Read word by wordIncline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.
Read word by wordInstead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”
Read word by wordI will give them, in My house and within My walls, a memorial and a name better than that of sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that will not be cut off.
Read word by wordWhom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?
Read word by wordFor I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me—the breath of life I have made.
Read word by wordYour people will rebuild the ancient ruins; you will restore the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of the Breach, Restorer of the Streets of Dwelling.
Read word by word“As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
Read word by wordWhereas you have been forsaken and despised, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy from age to age.
Read word by wordNo longer will the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine on your night; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your splendor.
Read word by wordYour sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.
Read word by wordThen all your people will be righteous; they will possess the land forever; they are the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, so that I may be glorified.
Read word by wordThey will rebuild the ancient ruins; they will restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations.
Read word by wordInstead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.
Read word by wordFor I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
Read word by wordIn all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Read word by wordThen His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
Read word by wordwho sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
Read word by wordYet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
Read word by wordWe have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
Read word by wordFrom ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.3
You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.4
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
Read word by wordWill He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
Read word by wordGo, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
Read word by wordBehold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
Read word by wordDo you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
Read word by wordthen I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Read word by wordBut the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
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