1. עוֹלָם
long duration, antiquity, futurity
The corpus record — Hebrew
לְעֹלָֽם
owlam · n.m
long duration, antiquity, futurity
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 438 · 14.28/10k
Senses
2. עוֹלָם
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
Attestations
- לְ/עֹלָֽם Genesis 3:22 (BHS)
- לְ/עֹלָ֔ם Genesis 6:3 (BHS)
- מֵ/עוֹלָ֖ם Genesis 6:4 (BHS)
- עוֹלָֽם Genesis 9:12 (BHS)
- עוֹלָ֔ם Genesis 9:16 (BHS)
- עוֹלָֽם Genesis 13:15 (BHS)
6 of 438 attestations shown.
Deep etymology
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.