עֵילוֹםʻêylôwm

long duration, antiquity, futurity

Pronunciation: ay-lome' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5865

Meanings

1. of past time (Psalms 10:1; Proverbs 8:23; Psalms 93:2)

a. ancient time (Isaiah 63:9; Isaiah 63:11; Amos 9:11)

b. ׳ מֵתֵי ע the long dead (Psalms 143:3; Lamentations 3:6; Ezekiel 26:20)

c. of God (Isaiah 46:9; Isaiah 63:16; Psalms 25:6)

d. of things (Genesis 49:26; Habakkuk 3:6; Deuteronomy 33:15)

e. plural שְׁנוֺת עולמים Ps 77:6 years of ancient times (Psalms 77:6; Isaiah 51:9; Ecclesiastes 1:10)

a. indefinite futurity, with preposition for ever, always (sometimes = during the lifetime) (Deuteronomy 15:17; 1 Samuel 27:12; Job 40:28)

b. = continuous existence (Ecclesiastes 1:4; Psalms 78:69; Psalms 104:5)

c. of divine existence (Genesis 21:33; Isaiah 40:28; Deuteronomy 32:40)

d. of God's covenant (Genesis 9:16; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 17:13)

e. of God's laws (Isaiah 59:21; Psalms 119:89; Psalms 119:160)

f. of God's promises (Isaiah 40:8; 2 Samuel 7:13; 2 Samuel 7:16)

g. of relations between God and his people (1 Chronicles 29:18; Psalms 45:18; Psalms 85:6)

h. of Messianic dynasty and king (Psalms 110:4; Psalms 45:7; Psalms 72:17)

i. = indefinite, unending future (Genesis 3:22; Job 7:16; Zechariah 1:5)

j. after death (Jeremiah 51:39; Jeremiah 51:57; Ecclesiastes 12:5)

k. = age (duration) of the world (Ecclesiastes 3:11)

l. plural intensive everlastingness, eternity (Isaiah 45:17; Daniel 9:24; Isaiah 26:4)

Same root

עוֹלָםʻôwlâm · H5769properly, 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

Where it appears

Appears 1 times in the Bible.

2 Chronicles 33:7 Manasseh even took a carved idol he had made and set it up in God’s Temple, the very place where God had told David and his son Solomon: “My name will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem—the city I have chosen from among all the tribes of Israel.

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).