Topic
Perpetual; Perpetually; Perpetuity
31 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 9:12ISBE
And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
- Exodus 29:9ISBE
And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.
- Exodus 30:8ISBE
And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
- Exodus 31:16ISBE
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
- Leviticus 3:17ISBE
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
- Leviticus 6:20ISBE
This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.
- Leviticus 24:9ISBE
And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
- Leviticus 25:23ISBE
¶ The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- Leviticus 25:30ISBE
And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.
- 1 Kings 9:3ISBE
And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
- 2 Chronicles 7:16ISBE
For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.
- Psalms 9:6ISBE
O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.
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- Psalms 74:3 ISBE
- Jeremiah 5:22 ISBE
- Jeremiah 8:5 ISBE
- Jeremiah 15:18 ISBE
- Jeremiah 25:12 ISBE
- Jeremiah 50:5 ISBE
- Jeremiah 51:39 ISBE
- Jeremiah 51:57 ISBE
- Ezekiel 25:15 ISBE
- Amos 1:11 ISBE
- Habakkuk 3:6 ISBE
- Zephaniah 2:9 ISBE
- Judith 13:20 ISBE
- Wisdom of Solomon 10:14 ISBE
- Wisdom of Solomon 11:6 ISBE
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 11:33 ISBE
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 41:6 ISBE
- 1 Maccabees 6:44 ISBE
- Matthew 28:20 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 31 references
per-pet'-u-al, per-pet'-u-al-i, pur-pe-tu'-i-ti (`olam, netsach, [~tamidh):
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" (Ge 9:12); "the priesthood by a perpetual statute" (Ex 29:9; compare Ex 31:16; Le 3:17; 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 51:39,57); "Moab shall be .... a perpetual desolation" (Ze 2:9), etc.; netsach, "preeminence," "perpetuity," "eternity" (often translated "for ever," Ps 9:6), is translated "perpetual" (Ps 74:3; Jer 15:18); natsach (participle) (Jer 8:5); tamidh, "continuance," generally rendered "continually," but sometimes "perpetual" or "perpetually" (Ex 30:8; Le 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 Am 1:11, "His anger did tear perpetually"; and of kol ha-yamim, "all the days" (1Ki 9:3; 2Ch 7:16, "my heart shall be there perpetually"; compare Mt 28:20, pasas tas hemeras, literally, "all the days").
Perpetuity occurs in the Revised Version (British and American) of Le 25:23,30, "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.'"
W. L. Walker
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.