Etymology

Olam Haba

Today it means: The Jewish afterlife or mythic future, usually thought to occur after the coming of the Messiah, in which the righteous are rewarded for their good deeds and the wicked punished for their evil deeds Full definition →

Hebrew העולם הבא
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The story

  1. Hebrew · borrowed fromהעולם הבא“the world to come”
  2. English todayOlam Haba

From Hebrew העולם הבא (“the world to come”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.