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 8 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.
And you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”
Read word by wordthen kings and princes will enter through the gates of this city. They will sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses with their officials, along with the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.
Read word by wordYet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.
Read word by wordThey have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
Read word by wordBut the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
Read word by wordbecause he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
Read word by wordAnd I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.”
Read word by wordThe prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
Read word by wordbehold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
Read word by wordBut when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
Read word by wordThe prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.
Read word by wordThe LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
Read word by wordThe whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”
Read word by wordI will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.
Read word by wordthe sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.
Read word by word“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.
Read word by wordFor by Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that Bozrah will become a desolation, a disgrace, a ruin, and a curse, and all her cities will be in ruins forever.”
Read word by word“Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
Read word by wordThey will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
Read word by wordNo one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
Read word by wordWhile they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
Read word by wordI will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Read word by wordand say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
Read word by wordHe has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
Read word by wordFor the Lord will not cast us off forever.
Read word by wordYou, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
Read word by wordBut I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
Read word by wordThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
Read word by wordthen I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.
Read word by wordI will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.”
Read word by wordThose who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
Read word by wordAll the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
Read word by wordBecause you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,
Read word by wordI will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
Read word by wordThis is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’
Read word by wordThey will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live there forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.
Read word by wordAnd I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
Read word by wordThen the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”
Read word by wordand He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. The house of Israel will never again defile My holy name—neither they nor their kings—by their prostitution and by the funeral offerings for their kings at their deaths.
Read word by wordNow let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.
Read word by wordYou are also to provide with it every morning a grain offering of a sixth of an ephah with a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour—a grain offering to the LORD. This is a permanent statute.
Read word by wordSeventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
Read word by wordAnd many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
Read word by wordThen the wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like the stars forever and ever.
Read word by wordAnd the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and I heard him swear by Him who lives forever, saying, “It will be for a time, and times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people has finally been shattered, all these things will be completed.”
Read word by wordSo I will betroth you to Me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in loving devotion and compassion.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.21
a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like the dawn overspreading the mountains a great and strong army appears, such as never was of old, nor will ever be in ages to come.
Read word by wordYou will have plenty to eat, until you are satisfied. You will praise the name of the LORD your God, who has worked wonders for you. My people will never again be put to shame.
Read word by wordThen you will know that I am present in Israel and that I am the LORD your God, and there is no other. My people will never again be put to shame.
Read word by wordBut Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 4.20
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