עָלַם
ʻâlam · H5957 · Aramaic · 20 occurrences
Meanings
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eternity, forever
A long duration of time that is or may seem unending, whether in the past or in the future
ExamplesEzra 4:15 so that a search may be conducted in the record books of your fathers. And you will discover in the record books and learn that that city is a rebellious city and detrimental to kings and provinces, and that they have revolted within it in past days; for this reason that city was laid waste.
Ezra 4:19 “And a decree has been issued by me, and a search has been conducted and it has been discovered that that city has risen up against the kings in past days, and that rebellion and revolt have been perpetrated in it,
Daniel 2:4 Then the Chaldeans spoke to the king in Aramaic: “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עָלַםfor ever 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
12 occurrences in 3 groups
- לto/for 15
- עַדand 3
- מִןfrom 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
8 occurrences in 5 groups
- יוֹםday 2
- מַלְכוּkingdom, reign 2
- שׇׁלְטָןdominion 2
- חַיlife 1
- עָלַםfor ever 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 2 words
- αἰών aiṓn · G165 · age, era, universe
- Hebrew עָלַם denotes indefinite duration or antiquity ('everlasting', 'ancient'), while Greek αἰών denotes an age or eon as a time-period concept, though both terms overlap substantially in LXX usage for perpetuity and eternal duration.
- αἰώνιος aiṓnios · G166 · eternal, since all time, from all ages past
- Hebrew עָלַם and Greek αἰώνιος are direct translation equivalents denoting perpetual/everlasting duration, both used of past time (ancient/old) and future/eternal time, forming a standard Hebrew-to-Greek rendering pair for durational permanence across the LXX corpus.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Time002002002010
- Daniel 2:4 has the Chaldeans tell the king, “O king, live forever! Tell the dream to your servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5957. alam עָלַם noun [masculine] perpetuity, antiquity (see Biblical Hebrew III> עוֺלָם…
עָלַם noun [masculine] perpetuity, antiquity (see Biblical Hebrew III> עוֺלָם עלם,); — ׳ע absolute Daniel 3:33 +, construct Dan 7:18; emphatic עָֽלְמָא Dan 2:20 +; plural עָֽלְמִין Dan 2:4 +, emphatic עָֽלְמַיָּא Dan 2:44; Dan 7:18; — perpetuity in the future: ע ׳מַלְכוּת Daniel 3:33; Dan 7:27, compare Dan 4:31; Dan 7:14; ׳ע as adverb for ever Dan 4:31; עָֽלְמַיָּא וְעַדעָֿלַם עַדעָֽֿלְמָא Dan 7:18; plural ׳לְע for ever Dan 2:4, Dan 2:44, Dan 2:44; Dan 3:9; Dan 5:10; Dan 6:7; Dan 6:22; Dan 6:27; antiquity, עָֽלְמָא מִןיֿוֺמָת Ezr 4:15, Ezr 4:19; of limitless time both past and future: ׳מִןעֿ ׳וְעַדעֿ Dan 2:20.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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