עוֹלָם

o.lamforever: enduring
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · masculine439 occurrences34 books414 verses
This word comes from the name of LORD.

Definition

or עֹלָם; from H5956; 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
Traditional renderings: 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.

Glossary entries

Lord Righteousness Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? Eli Abba Most High

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

439 total
  1. Isaiah 61:7עוֹלָ֖ם · and everlasting
    Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs.
  2. Isaiah 61:8עוֹלָ֖ם · an everlasting
    For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
  3. Isaiah 63:9עוֹלָֽם׃ · of old
    In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
  4. Isaiah 63:11עוֹלָ֖ם · of old
    Then His people remembered the days of old, the days of Moses. Where is He who brought them through the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is the One who set His Holy Spirit among them,
  5. Isaiah 63:12עוֹלָֽם׃ · everlasting
    …who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,
  6. Isaiah 63:16מֵֽעוֹלָ֖ם · from Everlasting
    Yet You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, O LORD, are our Father; our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
  7. Isaiah 63:19מֵֽעוֹלָם֙ · like those You never
    We have become like those You never ruled, like those not called by Your name.
  8. Isaiah 64:4וּמֵעוֹלָ֥ם · From ancient times
    From ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides You, who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.
  9. Isaiah 64:5עוֹלָ֖ם · if we remain in our sins
    You welcome those who gladly do right, who remember Your ways. Surely You were angry, for we sinned. How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
  10. Jeremiah 2:20מֵעוֹלָ֞ם · long ago
    “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
  11. Jeremiah 3:5לְעוֹלָ֔ם · forever
    Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.”
  12. Jeremiah 3:12לְעוֹלָֽם׃ · forever
    Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
  13. Jeremiah 5:15מֵעוֹלָם֙ · an ancient
    Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.
  14. Jeremiah 5:22עוֹלָ֖ם · an enduring
    Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
  15. Jeremiah 6:16עוֹלָ֗ם · for the ancient
    This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
  16. Jeremiah 7:7 (2×)עוֹלָ֖ם; עוֹלָֽם׃ · ever
    …then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
  17. Jeremiah 10:10עוֹלָ֑ם · and eternal
    But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
  18. Jeremiah 17:4עוֹלָ֥ם
    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.”
  19. Jeremiah 17:25לְעוֹלָֽם׃ · forever
    …then 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.
  20. Jeremiah 18:15עוֹלָ֔ם · [leaving] the ancient
    Yet 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.
  21. Jeremiah 18:16עוֹלָ֑ם · a perpetual
    They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
  22. Jeremiah 20:11עוֹלָ֖ם · with an everlasting
    But 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.
  23. Jeremiah 20:17עוֹלָֽם׃ · forever
    …because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
  24. Jeremiah 23:40 (2×)עוֹלָ֑ם · everlasting; עוֹלָ֔ם · and perpetual
    And I will bring upon you everlasting shame and perpetual humiliation that will never be forgotten.”
  25. Jeremiah 25:5 (2×)עוֹלָ֖ם · forever; עוֹלָֽם׃ · ever
    The 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.
  26. Jeremiah 25:9עוֹלָֽם׃ · an everlasting
    …behold, 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.
  27. Jeremiah 25:12עוֹלָֽם׃ · an everlasting
    But 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.
  28. Jeremiah 28:8הָֽעוֹלָ֑ם · of old
    The prophets of old who preceded you and me prophesied war, disaster, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.
  29. Jeremiah 31:3עוֹלָם֙ · you with an everlasting
    The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
  30. Jeremiah 31:40לְעוֹלָֽם׃ס
    The 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.”
  31. Jeremiah 32:40עוֹלָ֔ם · an everlasting
    I 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.
  32. Jeremiah 33:11לְעוֹלָ֣ם · endures forever
    …the 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.
  33. Jeremiah 35:6עוֹלָֽם׃
    “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.
  34. Jeremiah 49:13עוֹלָֽם׃ · forever
    For 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.”
  35. Jeremiah 49:33עוֹלָ֑ם
    “Hazor will become a haunt for jackals, a desolation forever. No one will dwell there; no man will abide there.”
  36. Jeremiah 49:36עוֹלָם׃ · Elam’s
    I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
  37. Jeremiah 50:5עוֹלָ֖ם · in an everlasting
    They 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.
  38. Jeremiah 51:26עוֹלָ֛ם · forever
    No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,” declares the LORD.
  39. Jeremiah 51:39עוֹלָ֖ם · forever
    While 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.
  40. Jeremiah 51:57עוֹלָ֖ם · forever
    I 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.
  41. Jeremiah 51:62עוֹלָ֖ם · forever
    …and 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.’
  42. Lamentations 3:6עוֹלָֽם׃ס · for ages
    He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.
  43. Lamentations 3:31לְעוֹלָ֖ם · forever
    For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
  44. Lamentations 5:19לְעוֹלָ֣ם · forever
    You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
  45. Ezekiel 16:60עוֹלָֽם׃ · an everlasting covenant
    But I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
  46. Ezekiel 25:15עוֹלָֽם׃ · with ancient
    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
  47. Ezekiel 26:20עוֹלָ֗ם · of antiquity
    …then 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.