Ever
עֵילוֹםStrong’s H5865elom (e-lom)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Elom is the Hebrew word usually translated “ever”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:”
Meaning
- For ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world
How it's translated
- for ever 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
עֵילוֹם elom · ever
for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ever” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
EV'ER, adverb
At any time; at any period or point of time, past or future. Have you ever seen the city of Paris, or shall you ever see it?
- “No man ever yet hated his own flesh” Ephesians 5:29
- At all times; always; continually.“He will ever by mindful of his covenant” Psalms 111:5“Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth” 2 Timothy 3:7
- Forever, eternally; to perpetuity; during everlasting continuance.“His master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever” Exodus 21:6
- ever and anon, at one time and another; now and then.
All definitions
- In any degree.
- A word of enforcement or emphasis; thus, as soon as ever he had done it; as like him as ever he can look.“They broke all their bones in pieces or ever they came to the bottom of the den” Daniel 6:24
- In poetry, and sometimes in prose, ever is contracted into e'er.
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.