Perpetuity
נֵ֫צַחStrong’s H5331netsach (ne-tsach)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Netsach is the Hebrew word usually translated “perpetuity”, “eminence of” and “eminence”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.”
Meaning
- Eminence, perpetuity, strength, victory, enduring, everlastingnesseminence · enduring of life · endurance in time, perpetual, continual, unto the end · everlastingness, ever
How it's translated
- to perpetuity 31
- perpetuity 7
- eminence of 1
- and the eminence 1
- to perpetuity of 1
- perpetuities 1
- endurance my 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 18
- Job 6
- Isaiah 6
- Jeremiah 3
- Lamentations 2
- Amos 2
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 2:26Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?
- 1 Chronicles 29:11Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
- Job 4:20They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
- Job 14:20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
- Job 20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
- Job 23:7There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
All 42 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נֵ֫צַח netsach · perpetuity
1) eminence, perpetuity, strength, victory, enduring, everlastingness 1a) eminence 1b) enduring of life 1c) endurance in time, perpetual, continual, unto the end 1d) everlastingness, ever
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “perpetuity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PERPETU'ITY, noun
[Latin perpetuitas.]
Endless duration; continuance to eternity.
- Continued uninterrupted existence, or duration for an indefinite period of time; as the perpetuity of laws and institutions; the perpetuity of fame.
- Something of which there will be no end.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.