עֵילוֹם
ʿêlôm
long duration
Strong's H5865NounHebrewTWOT 1631a

עֵילוֹם (ʿêlôm) is a Hebrew noun meaning long duration. It appears 1 time in 1 book of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5865).

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

2 Chronicles 33:7

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