Genesis 9:12
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
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Perpetual
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Zephaniah 2:9
Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
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עוֹלָם
ʻôwlâm · o-lawm'
21 times translated as this KJV form431 total Strong's occurrences
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
Strong's KJV usage: 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 5331, 5703.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 9:12Strong's last: Habakkuk 3:6
Open full H5769 profile →נֶצַח
netsach · neh'-tsakh
3 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a goal, i.e. the bright object at a distance travelled towards; hence (figuratively), splendor, or (subjectively) truthfulness, or (objectively) confidence; but usually (adverbially), continually (i.e. to the most distant point of view)
Strong's KJV usage: alway(-s), constantly, end, ( n-) ever(more), perpetual, strength, victory.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 9:6Strong's last: Jeremiah 15:18
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tâmîyd · taw-meed'
2 times translated as this KJV form104 total Strong's occurrences
properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); elliptically the regular (daily) sacrifice
Strong's KJV usage: alway(-s), continual (employment, -ly), daily, (n-)ever(-more), perpetual.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 30:8Strong's last: Leviticus 6:20
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nâtsach · naw-tsakh'
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to glitter from afar, i.e. to be eminent (as a superintendent, especially of the Temple services and its music); to be permanent
Strong's KJV usage: excel, chief musician (singer), oversee(-r), set forward.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 8:5Strong's last: Jeremiah 8:5
Open full H5329 profile →עַד
ʻad · ad
1 times translated as this KJV form98 total Strong's occurrences
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
Strong's KJV usage: against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-) to, how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, ( as) yet.
Strong's first: Zephaniah 2:9Strong's last: Zephaniah 2:9
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H5769
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
H5769
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
H8548
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
H5769
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
H5769
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
H8548
This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
H5769
And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
H5769
But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
H5769
And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.
H5331
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
H5331
Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
H5769
And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.
H5769
Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
H5329
Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
H5331
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?
H5769
To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
H5769
And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
H5769
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
H5769
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
H5769
For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
H5769
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
H5769
In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.
H5769
And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.
H5769
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
H5769
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
English meaning and historical usage.
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perpetual
PERPET'UAL, adjective [Latin perpetuus, from perpes, perpetis; per and pes, from a root signifying to pass.]
1. Never ceasing; continuing forever in future time; destined to be eternal; as a perpetual covenant; a perpetual statute.
[Literally true with respect to the decrees of the Supreme Being.]
2. Continuing or continued without intermission; uninterrupted; as a perpetual stream; the perpetual action of the heart and arteries.
3. Permanent; fixed; not temporary; as a perpetual law or edict; perpetual love or amity, perpetual incense. Exodus 30:8.
4. Everlasting; endless.
Destructions are come to a perpetual end. Psalms 9:6.
5. During the legal dispensation. Exodus 29:9.
Perpetual curacy, is where all the tithes are appropriated and no vicarage is endowed.
Perpetual motion, motion that generates a power of continuing itself forever or indefinitely, by means of mechanism or some application of the force of gravity; not yet discovered, and probably impossible.
Perpetual screw, a screw that acts against the teeth of a wheel and continues its action without end.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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