Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H387
אֵיתָן
ethanay-thawn'
Ethan
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼÊythân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H387is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H387
Ethan, the name of four Israelites
The King James renders it: Ethan.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ethan is rendered "Ethan". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in 1 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 4:31He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
1 Kings 4:31מֵאֵיתָ֣ן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Six of the word's seven uses are in 1 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Ethan4
- and Ethan2
- more than Ethan1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֵיתָ֖ן2
- אֵיתָ֥ן1
- אֵיתָן֙1
- וְאֵיתָ֧ן1
- וְאֵיתָ֑ן1
- מֵאֵיתָ֣ן1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)4HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
1 Kings
one use
He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
- מֵאֵיתָ֣ןmeeitanpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: more than Ethan
1 Chronicles
six uses
The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol, and Dara—five in all.
- וְאֵיתָ֧ןveeitanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ethan
The son of Ethan: Azariah.
- אֵיתָ֖ןʾeitanproper noun (a name)tagged: Ethan
the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,
- אֵיתָ֥ןʾeitanproper noun (a name)tagged: Ethan
On the left were their kinsmen, the sons of Merari:
- אֵיתָן֙ʾeitanproper noun (a name)tagged: Ethan
So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;
- אֵיתָ֖ןʾeitanproper noun (a name)tagged: Ethan
The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals.
- וְאֵיתָ֑ןveeitanconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Ethan
The letters
Gematria 461· 1,111 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.