Perpetual, Perpetually, Perpetuity
Perpetual, Perpetually, Perpetuity
per-petu-al, per-petu-al-i, pur-pe-tui-ti (, olam, , necah, , tamdh):
Perpetual is usually the translation of olam, properly, a wrapping up or hiding, used often of time indefinitely long, and of eternity when applied to God; hence, we have, for perpetual generations (Gen 9:12); the priesthood by a perpetual statute (Exo 29:9; compare Exo 31:16; Lev 3:17; Lev 24:9, etc.); placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it (Jer 5:22, the Revised Version margin an everlasting ordinance which it cannot pass); sleep a perpetual sleep (Jer 51:39, Jer 51:57); Moab shall be … a perpetual desolation (Zep 2:9), etc.; necah, preeminence, perpetuity, eternity (often translated for ever, Psa 9:6), is translated perpetual (Psa 74:3; Jer 15:18); nacah (participle) (Jer 8:5); tamdh, continuance, generally rendered continually, but sometimes perpetual or perpetually (Exo 30:8; Lev 6:20).
Perpetually is the rendering of adh, properly progress, duration, hence, long or indefinite time, eternity (usually in the King James Version rendered for ever ), in Amo 1:11, His anger did tear perpetually; and of kol ha-yamm, all the days (1Ki 9:3; 2Ch 7:16, my heart shall be there perpetually; compare Mat 28:20, pasas tas hemeras, literally, all the days).
Perpetuity occurs in the Revised Version (British and American) of Lev 25:23, Lev 25:30, The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, The house … shall be made sure in perpetuity.
Perpetual is frequent in the Apocrypha, most often as the translation of aionios and kindred words, e.g. Judith 13:20, a perpetual praise; The Wisdom of Solomon 10:14, perpetual glory, the Revised Version (British and American) eternal; Ecclesiasticus 11:33, a perpetual blot, the Revised Version (British and American) blame for ever; 1 Macc 6:44, a perpetual name, the Revised Version (British and American) everlasting; aenaos, ever-flowing, occurs in The Wisdom of Solomon 11:6 (so the Revised Version); endeleches, constant (Ecclesiasticus 41:6, perpetual reproach).
For perpetual (Jer 50:5; Hab 3:6) the Revised Version has everlasting; for the old hatred (Eze 25:15), perpetual enmity; for perpetual desolation (Jer 25:12) desolate forever, margin Hebrew ‘everlasting desolations.’