Definition

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

Etymology

or עֹלָם; from H5956 (עָלַם);

Word family

• עָלַם ʻâlam

How the KJV renders it

• 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 (נֶצַח)
• H5703 (עַד)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.