per-pet’-u-al, per-pet’-u-al-i, pur-pe-tu’-i-ti (`olam, netsach, [~tamidh):<br /><br />

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"Perpetually" is the rendering of `adh, properly "progress," "duration," hence, long or indefinite time, eternity (usually in the <span class="auto-link">[[King James Version]]</span> rendered "for ever " ), in <bibleref ref="Amos.1.11">Am 1:11</bibleref>, "His anger did tear perpetually"; and of kol ha-yamim, "all the days" (<bibleref ref="1Kgs.9.3">1Ki 9:3</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="2Chr.7.16">2Ch 7:16</bibleref>, "my heart shall be there perpetually"; compare <bibleref ref="Matt.28.20">Mt 28:20</bibleref>, pasas tas hemeras, literally, "all the days").<br /><br />

Perpetuity occurs in the Revised Version (British and American) of <bibleref ref="Lev.25.23">Le 25:23</bibleref>,<bibleref ref="Lev.25.30">30</bibleref>, "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"; <span class="auto-link">[[The Wisdom of Solomon]]</span> 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 <span class="auto-link">[[Wisdom of Solomon]]</span> 11:6 (so the Revised Version); endeleches, "constant" (Ecclesiasticus 41:6, "perpetual reproach").

For "perpetual" (<bibleref ref="Jer.50.5">Jer 50:5</bibleref>; <bibleref ref="Hab.3.6">Hab 3:6</bibleref>) the Revised Version has "everlasting"; for "the old hatred" (<bibleref ref="Ezek.25.15">Eze 25:15</bibleref>), "perpetual enmity"; for "perpetual desolation" (<bibleref ref="Jer.25.12">Jer 25:12</bibleref>) "desolate forever," margin "Hebrew `everlasting desolations.’"