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# אֵיתָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H387

**Ethan** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ethan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/387/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵיתָן³: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/387/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a wise man 1 K 5:11 (where called הָאֶזְרָחִי) named with הֵימָן, כַּלְכֹּל, דַּרְדַּע; cf. 1 Ch 2:6 (where these 4 with זִמְרִי are בְּנֵי זֶרַח); also 2:8; 6:27; called בֶּן־קִישִׁי 6:29 = בֶּן־קוּשָׁיָ֫הוּ 15:17, where, and v 19, named as Levit. singer with הֵימָן and אָסָף (q.v.; יְדוּתוּן for אֵיתָן in this group 1 Ch 25:1, 6 2 Ch 5:12; 35:15, v. ידותון); לְאֵיתָן הָאֶזְרָחִי ψ 89:1 (title).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ethan (5); of Ethan (2); than Ethan (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.8/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֥י אֵיתָ֖ן עֲזַרְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Ethan \[were\].Azariah

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.

[Psalms 89:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.1/#tree)

מַ֝שְׂכִּ֗יל לְאֵיתָ֥ן הָֽאֶזְרָחִֽי׃

*Word for word:* a.poem of Ethan the Ezrachite

*JPS 1917:* Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/387.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/387/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).