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Word Study · Strong's H5769 · Hebrew

עוֹלָם

olam

o-lawm'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʻôwlâm

properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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

Rendered in the KJV as

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).

  • 438
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 34 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 73
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 438 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 73

  • עוֹלָֽם׃61
  • לְעוֹלָ֣ם53
  • עוֹלָ֑ם36
  • עוֹלָ֖ם29
  • לְעוֹלָֽם׃26
  • עוֹלָ֔ם24
  • לְעוֹלָ֥ם17
  • לְעוֹלָ֑ם17
  • לְעוֹלָ֖ם15
  • עוֹלָם֙15
  • לְעוֹלָ֔ם8
  • עוֹלָֽם׃ ס7

and 61 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 28

  • perpetuity171
  • for ever129
  • [is] for ever45
  • antiquity30
  • forever13
  • from long ago9
  • the perpetuity9
  • the antiquity5
  • ¿ to forever3
  • [are] from long ago2
  • and from long ago2
  • antiquities2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 11

  • noun · masculine singular212
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular192
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular14
  • noun · masculine plural9
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular4
  • question particle + preposition + noun · masculine singular2
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural1
  • preposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1
  • question particle + preposition + noun · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 212
  • HR/Ncmsa · 192
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 14
  • HNcmpa · 9
  • HC/R/Ncmsa · 4
  • HTi/R/Ncmsa · 2
  • HNcmpc · 1
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 1
  • HR/Ncmpa · 1
  • HR/Td/Ncmsa · 1
  • HTi/R/Ncmpa · 1

All 438, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Psalms carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis13 occurrences
Exodus17 occurrences
Leviticus21 occurrences
Numbers10 occurrences
Deuteronomy12 occurrences
Joshua4 occurrences
Judges1 occurrence
1 Samuel10 occurrences
2 Samuel12 occurrences
1 Kings8 occurrences
2 Kings2 occurrences
1 Chronicles25 occurrences
2 Chronicles12 occurrences
Ezra3 occurrences
Nehemiah4 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms143 occurrences
Proverbs6 occurrences
Ecclesiastes7 occurrences
Isaiah46 occurrences
Jeremiah34 occurrences
Lamentations3 occurrences
Ezekiel18 occurrences
Daniel5 occurrences
Hosea1 occurrence
Joel4 occurrences
Amos1 occurrence
Obadiah1 occurrence
Jonah1 occurrence
Micah5 occurrences
Habakkuk2 occurrences
Zephaniah1 occurrence
Zechariah1 occurrence
Malachi2 occurrences

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Trails through this word

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).