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‖ olam|əʊˈlɑːm| [Heb. ﻋōlām a long period of undefined limits, an age (Gr. αἰών), perh. properly ‘that which is hidden’, f. ﻋālam to hide.] Used by some for: A vast period of time, an age, through a succession of which the universe or the earth is supposed to have passed. (Cf. æon.) Hence oˈlamic a., of or belonging to a vast period or age. (Cf. æonian.)
1872T. Lewis in Lange's Comm. Eccles. iii. 15 (ed. Clark) 73 Closely allied to the cyclical idea so prominent elsewhere in the book and the idea of the olam as the unity of the cosmos in time. Ibid. 44 Excursus on ‘Olamic or aeonian words in Scripture’. 1877Dawson Orig. World vi. 132 The reference to God's olamic Sabbath. 1886― in Expositor Apr. 287 But man fell, and lost the perpetual or olamic sabbatism. |