What we cannot experience we cannot measure.
We have no sense organs with which to experience Time.
Time cannot be experienced, thus we cannot invent a tool with which to measure Time.

We can experience Sounds and Colors, and we can, and have, invented tools with which we measure the properties of Sounds and Colors.
But since we cannot experience Time, we cannot invent a tool to measure Time.

Clocks and watches do not measure Time. They display precise movements of their hands or we can count the number of cycles during a span of time, but the intervals between the signs is assumed to be a fixed interval of Time, but there is no way for us to verify that assumption. The clocks are moving their hands in a seemingly very precise motion, but the clocks are not measuring Time.

We are interested in the interval between each tick of the clock, but that is what to which we have no access.

Time is an interpretation by man. It is a convention based on unprovable assumptions.

Clocks do not measure Time.
Some clocks run slower than others and some run faster than others. Does that mean that time is running slower at some location and faster at another location?
Obviously not. Thus the condition of clocks does not determine the speed of the flow of time and neither does it affect the steady flow of time.
Two clocks of the same high quality manufacture, working next to each other, can never “run” at precisely the same rate, thus proving that neither one is measuring time.
Clocks “tell” Time, but do not measure Time.

CITATIONS FROM THE LITERATURE

All calendars are based on observations of the motion of heavenly bodies, and use as their base unit a natural cycle whose regular rhythms are clear to everyone.
Three astronomical cycles serve as reference points: the earth’s rotating on its axis, which defines the length of a day; the passage of the moon around the earth, which defines the lunar month; and the earth’s orbit around the sun, which defines the year.

Yet these three cycles pose considerable problems for the establishment of calendars: there is no simple mathematical relation between them; none of them is divisible by the others; and moreover their durations can vary.
Jacqueline de Bourgoing; The Calendar: Measuring Time; 2001; pp14-15

[…] other verses contain one of four Hebrew words: ’az, ’olam, ’eythan, or ’ad. A simple check in any good Hebrew lexicon or concordance indicates that none of these words are capable of demonstrating that the earth and universe must be billions, millions or even thousands of years old. All four of the words are used in reference to events in the near or distant past, and none provide any indication of the date of Creation. [Francis Brown, et al, The New Brown-Driver­Briggs-Gesenius Hebrew and English Lexicon (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1979), ’az: p. 23a; ’eythan: p. 450b; ’ad: p. 723b; ’olam: p. 761b)

TWOT states, “There are at least twenty instances where it clearly refers to the past. Such usages generally point to something that seems long ago, but rarely if ever refer to a limitless past... None of these past references has the idea of endlessness or limitlessness, but each points to a time long before the immediate knowledge of those living.” [p. 672] Examples of the references listed in TWOT are: Deuteronomy 32:7, Job 22:15, I Samuel 27:8, Isaiah 51:9; 63:9,11, Genesis 6:4. Certainly, ’olam was used by biblical authors to represent periods of time in the distant past.

Could ’olam refer to a set period of time? TWOT states, “The LXX (Septuagint) generally translates ’olam [Hebrew] by aion (Greek) which has essentially the same range of meaning. That neither the Hebrew nor the Greek word in itself contains the idea of endlessness is shown by the fact that they sometimes refer to events or conditions that occurred at a definite point in the past.” [p. 673]
Van Bebber, Mark; Creation and Time; 1994; p66; p77

Hebrew Words for periods of time Translated into English with different words			LXX Words for periods of time Translated into English with different words
VERSE	HEBREW WORD	TRANSLATION	GREEK WORD	TRANSLATION
Gen 17:19	Olam	Everlasting	αιωνιον	eternal
Exod 3:15	Olam	Forever	αιωνιον	eternal
1 Sam 20:42	Ad Olam	Forever	αιωνοϛ	the eon
2 Sam 7:13	Ad Olam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
2 Sam 7:26	Ad Olam	Forever	εωϛ αιωνοϛ	until the eon
1 Kings 9:3	Ad Olam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
2 Kings 21:7	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
1 Chron 16:41	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
1 Chron 17:24	Ad Olam	Forever	εωϛ αιωνοϛ	unto the eon
1 Chron 22:10	Ad Olam	Forever	εωϛ αιωνοϛ	unto the eon
1 Chron 23:13	Ad Olam	Forever	εωϛ αιωνοϛ	unto the eon
2 Chron 2:3/4	Laolam	Lasting	διαπαντος	continually
2 Chron 2:3/4	-	-	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
2 Chron 7:16	Ad Olam	Forever	εωϛ αιωνοϛ	unto the eon
2 Chron 33:4	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
2 Chron 33:7	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Nehem 9:5	Haolam ad Haolam	Everlasting to Everlasting	απο τον αιωνος και εως τον αιωνος	from the eon and unto the eon
Psalm 5:12/11	Laolam	Ever	εις αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 9:5	Laolam wa Ad	Forever & Ever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 44:9/8	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 45:18/17	Laolam wa Ad	Forever & Ever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 49:9/8	Laolam	Ever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 49:10/9	Lanatzakh	Forever	εις τελος	till the end
Psalm 49:12/11	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 52:9/8	Olam wa Ad	Forever & Ever	εις τον αιωνα του αιωνος	into the eon of the eon
Psalm 52:10/9	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 61:8/7	Olam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 61:9/8	LaAd	Ever	εις τους αιωνας	into the eons
Psalm 72:17	Laolam	Forever	εις τους αιωνας	into the eons
Psalm 72:19	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα και εις τον αιωνα του αιωνος	into the eon and into the eon of the eon
Psalm 74:10	Lanatzakh	Forever	εις τελος	to the end
Psalm 74:11	-	-	εις τελος	to the end
Psalm 74:12	Moqadam	From of old	προ αιωνος	is before the eon
Psalm 86:12	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 111:9	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 113:2	Olam	Forevermore	εωϛ του αιωνοϛ	unto the eon
Psalm 135:13	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Psalm 145:1	Laolam wa Ad	Forever & Ever	εις τον αιωνα και εις τον αιωνα του αιωνος	into the eon and into the eon of the eon
Psalm 145:13	Laolamim	Everlastings	των αιωνων	the eons
Psalm 145:21	Laolam wa Ad	Forever & Ever	εις τον αιωνα και εις τον αιωνα του αιωνος	into the eon and into the eon of the eon
Isa 9:5	Ad	Everlasting	αιωνος	eon
Isa 9:6/7	Ayn Kutz	No End	ουκ εστιν τελος	there is no end
Isa 9:6/7	Olam	Forever	και εις τον αιωνα	and into the eon
Isa 55:13	Olam	Everlasting	αιωνιον	eternal
Isa 56:5	Olam	Everlasting	αιωνιον	eternal
Isa 57:15	Ad	Forever	τον αιωνα	the eon
Isa 57:16	Laolam	To forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Isa 63:12	Olam	Everlasting	αιωνιον	everlasting
Ezek 43:7	Laolam	Forever	εις τον αιωνα	into the eon
Dan 2:20	Olama wa Ad Olama	Forever & Ever	του αιωνος και εωϛ του αιωνοϛ	the eon and unto the eon
Hosea 12:6	Tamid	Always	διαπαντος	always
Micah 4:5	Laolam wa Ad	Forever & Ever	εις τον αιωνα και επεκεινα	into the eon and beyond
Micah 5:2	Olam	Ancient Time	αιωνος	eon
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