עוֹלָם
olam
long duration
Strong's H5769NounHebrewTWOT 1631aTime

עוֹלָם (olam) is a Hebrew noun meaning long duration. It appears 438 times in 34 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5769).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1631a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1631a)long duration, antiquity, futurity; concealed, vanishing, out of mind, eternity, always; ancient, any more, continuance, eternal, lasting, long, old, perpetual, at any time, world, ever
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

עוֹלָם noun, masculine: long duration, antiquity, futurity

Strong's H5769 עוֹלָם: 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: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 H5331, H5703.

Strong's H5865 עֵילוֹם
KJV:ever.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 1631: עלם ʿlm — Root of: עוֹלָם long duration, antiquity, futurity; עֵילוֹם long duration, antiquity, futurity

See it in Scripture

Genesis 3:22Exodus 3:15Leviticus 3:17

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