Words the Bible translates as of old
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- olamעוֹלָםthe farthest horizon of time a speaker can see: the remotest past, the unending future, or simply forever, with the direction and the distance set by what is being talked about
- azאָזfrom then on, of old, since: counting time from a point in the past forward.
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- then: at that point in time, or in that case as a result.
- archaiosἀρχαῖοςfrom the beginning: belonging to the time when the thing in view started, whether that is the far past or simply the first days of something recent
- alamעָלַםthe farthest reach of time: unending future duration (forever, everlasting) or, less often, the distant past (of old); perpetuity.
- palaiπάλαιof oldnot studied yet
- qadmoniקַדְמֹנִיeastern: on the side toward the sunrise, used above all of the east gate and of the eastern sea
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- former or ancient: belonging to the distant past, and so also the people who lived long ago
- ekpalaiἔκπαλαιof oldnot studied yet
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