Etymology

world to come

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 הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא
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The story

  1. Hebrew · derived fromהָעוֹלָם הַבָּא
  2. English todayworld to come

A translation of Hebrew הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא (ha'olám habá, literally “the coming world”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.