Strong H5769H5769Jעוֹלָם

forever: antiquity

One of the 4 senses of Strong H5769

Transliteration
‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm
Pronunciation
{o-lawm'} o-lawm'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

: 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

General definition

From H5956; properly {concealed} that {is} the vanishing point; generally time out of mind (past or {future}) that {is} (practically) eternity; frequentative adverbially (especially with prepositional prefix) always : - always ({-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 .

In the Bible

Strong H5769J appears in 42 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • old20
  • time6
  • ancient5
  • everlasting5
  • ever3
  • continuance1
  • long1
  • thee1
  • thou1

First verses

  1. Genesis 6:4
    There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
  2. Deuteronomy 32:7
    Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
  3. Joshua 24:2
    And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
  4. 1 Samuel 27:8
    And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
  5. Job 22:15
    Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
  6. Psalms 24:7
    Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
  7. Psalms 24:9
    Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
  8. Psalms 25:6
    Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.
  9. Psalms 77:5
    I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
  10. Psalms 119:52
    I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.
  11. Psalms 143:3
    For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
  12. Proverbs 8:23
    I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
  13. Proverbs 22:28
    Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
  14. Proverbs 23:10
    Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
  15. Ecclesiastes 1:10
    Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
  16. 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 and devour at once.
  17. Isaiah 44:7
    And who, as I, shall call, 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, let them shew unto them.
  18. Isaiah 46:9
    Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
  19. Isaiah 51:9
    Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
  20. Isaiah 57:11
    And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
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