Perpetual

Genesis 9:
12 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:

9 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:
8 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:
16 Wherefore the children of ISRAEL (Judah?) shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

 

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See also my other page on this website: Sabbath

 

Genesis 2:

2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Strong's H6942 - qadash

 
קָדַשׁ
Transliteration
qadash
Pronunciation
kä·dash' (Key)
 
Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1990

KJV Translation Count — Total: 172x
The KJV translates Strong's H6942 in the following manner: sanctify (108x), hallow (25x), dedicate (10x), holy (7x), prepare (7x), consecrate (5x), appointed (1x), bid (1x), purified (1x), miscellaneous (7x).
Outline of Biblical Usage [?]

  1. to consecrate, sanctify, prepare, dedicate, be hallowed, be holy, be sanctified, be separate

    1. (Qal)

      1. to be set apart, be consecrated

      2. to be hallowed

      3. consecrated, tabooed

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to show oneself sacred or majestic

      2. to be honoured, be treated as sacred

      3. to be holy

    3. (Piel)

      1. to set apart as sacred, consecrate, dedicate

      2. to observe as holy, keep sacred

      3. to honour as sacred, hallow

      4. to consecrate

    4. (Pual)

      1. to be consecrated

      2. consecrated, dedicated

    5. (Hiphil)

      1. to set apart, devote, consecrate

      2. to regard or treat as sacred or hallow

      3. to consecrate

    6. (Hithpael)

      1. to keep oneself apart or separate

      2. to cause Himself to be hallowed (of God)

      3. to be observed as holy

      4. to consecrate oneself

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קָדַשׁ qâdash, kaw-dash'; a primitive root; to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally):—appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly.
Gesenius' Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon [?]
 

John 10:

16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
 
Leviticus 3:

17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

 

Leviticus 6:
20 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:
9 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:
34 But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

 

Numbers 19:
21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them, that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes; and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even.

 

Psalms 9:
6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

 

Psalms 74:
3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

 

Psalms 78:
66 And he smote his enemies in the hinder parts: he put them to a perpetual reproach.

 

Jeremiah 5:
22 Fear ye not me? saith the LORD: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?

 

Jeremiah 8:
5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

 

Jeremiah 15:
18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

 

Jeremiah 18:
16 To make their land desolate, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

 

Jeremiah 23:
40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.

 

Jeremiah 25:
9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

12 And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

 

Jeremiah 49:
13 For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

 

Jeremiah 50:
5 They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the LORD in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

 

Jeremiah 51:
39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the LORD.

57 And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

 

Ezekiel 35:
5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

 

Ezekiel 46:
14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the LORD.

 

Habakkuk 3:
6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

 

Zephaniah 2:
9 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

 

Genesis 9:

8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,

9 And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you;

10 And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

11 And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

12 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:

13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

15 And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

16 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.

17 And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.