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.
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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.
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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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H5704
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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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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