אוּלָםʼûwlâm

but, but indeed, a strong adversative (Job 17:10; Job 2:5; Job 5:8; Job 13:3; Genesis 28:19)

Pronunciation: oo-lawm' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H199

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 19 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 28:19 He named that place Bethel (which means “house of God”), although it was previously called Luz.
  • Genesis 48:19 But his father refused. “I know, my son; I know,” he replied. “Manasseh will also become a great people, but his younger brother will become even greater. And his descendants will become a multitude of nations.”
  • Exodus 9:16 But I have spared you for a purpose—to show you my power and to spread my fame throughout the earth.
  • Numbers 14:21 But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the Lord’s glory,
  • Judges 18:29 They renamed the town Dan after their ancestor, Israel’s son, but it had originally been called Laish.
  • 1 Samuel 20:3 Then David took an oath before Jonathan and said, “Your father knows perfectly well about our friendship, so he has said to himself, ‘I won’t tell Jonathan—why should I hurt him?’ But I swear to you that I am only a step away from death! I swear it by the Lord and by your own soul!”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).