Finality
צְמִיתֻתStrong’s H6783tsemitut (tse-mi-tut)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsemitut is the Hebrew word usually translated “perpetuity”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.”
Meaning
- Completion, finality, in perpetuity
How it's translated
- to perpetuity 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
צְמִיתֻת tsemitut · finality
completion, finality, in perpetuity
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.