Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Hello Bryant:

Thanks for your comments.

Please allow me to address the first verse Psalms 90:2.

1. I don't see any word in that verse that contextualizes and specifies עולם
in this instance, as eternal, (as a fact versus theology).

2. I also don't see that יהוה from עולם to עולם precludes a separate
conclusion of יהוה from everlasting to everlasting. Certainly no one
concludes in the verse that יהוה of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, excludes יהוה
of everyone else. exodus 3:15.

regards,

fred burlingame

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Bryant J. Williams III <bjwvmw AT com-pair.net
> wrote:

>  Dear Fred,
>
> (ad (olam - Instensive use with the idea of "from everlasting to
> everlasting."
>     Ps 90:2
>     Ps 103:17 - Chesedh
>     Ps 106:48 = I Chron 16:36; Neh 9:5; I Chron 29: 16; Ps 41:14 -
> benedictions
>     Jer 7:7; 25:8 - land given
>     Pss 115:18; 121:8 - from now and for ever (basically, as long as one
> lives)
>     Ps 131:3 - of people's hope in God
>     Isa 9:6 - Davidic Dynasty
>     Mic 4:7; Isa 59:21; Pss 125:2; 113:2 - of God's acts, words, etc.
>
> For further instances check out BDB, (ad, pp. 723-725; (olam, pp. 761-763).
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> The following is a breakdown of )olam:
>     ancient time, 1x
>     beginning of the world, 1x
>     continuance, 1x
>     ever, 267x
>     everlasting, 11x
>     evermore, 15x
>     old, 7x
>     old time, 1x
>     world, 2x
> Genitive use:
>     always, 1x
>     ancient, 5x
>     at any time, 1x
>     eternal, 1x
>     everlasting, 53x
>     for ever (forever), 3x
>     lasting, 1x
>     long, 2x
>     old, 6x
>     perpetual, 20x
> Plural
>     old, 2x
>
> (ad (olam - any more (anymore) - 2x
> le-(olam - alway, 2x
> le-(olamim - of old time, 1x
> Me-(olam
>     ever of old, 1x
>     long time, 1x
>     of old, 6x
>     of old time, 2x
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> (ad
>     eternity, 1x
>     ever, 42x
>     everlasting, 2x
>     evermore, 1x
>     perpetually, 1x
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> Rev. Bryant J. Williams III
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