Perpetual
διηνεκήςStrong’s G1336diēnekēs
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Diēnekēs is the Greek word usually translated “all time”, “continuous” and “perpetuity”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.”
Meaning
Usually translated “all time”, “continuous” and “perpetuity”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- all time 2
- continuous 1
- perpetuity 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Hebrews 4
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Hebrews 10:1For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
- Hebrews 10:12But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
- Hebrews 10:14For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Greek dictionary
διηνεκής diēnekēs · perpetual
δι-ηνεκής, -ές (διήνεγκα, aorist of διαφέρω) [in Sm.: Psa.48:15, 89:30 ;] unbroken, continuous: adverbially, εἰς τὸ δ., continually (for exx., see Deiss., BS, 251), Heb.7:3 10:1, 12 10:14† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perpetual” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERPET'UAL, adjective
[Latin perpetuus, from perpes, perpetis; per and pes, from a root signifying to pass.]
- Never ceasing; continuing forever in future time; destined to be eternal; as a perpetual covenant; a perpetual statute.
- Continuing or continued without intermission; uninterrupted; as a perpetual stream; the perpetual action of the heart and arteries.
- Permanent; fixed; not temporary; as a perpetual law or edict; perpetual love or amity, perpetual incense. Exodus 30:8
- Everlasting; endless.“Destructions are come to a perpetual end” Psalms 9:6
All definitions
- During the legal dispensation. Exodus 29:9
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.