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(Are you looking for our Twebrew School Treats about the Hebrew alphabet or our Hebrew Instructional videos? Click here for a directory!) Click here to hear Eitan pronounced Ethan is the anglicized form of the Hebrew name Eitan. It means strong and steadfast and also refers to a stream whose water flows throughout the year. Although Ethan is a biblical name, it is not the name of any major character. There appear to be three different Ethans in the Bible. The first is mentioned in I Kings : “Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east...For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol” (I Kings 5:10-11). Although I Kings does not identify these men further, one can assume that Mahol was an alternate name for Judah’s son Zerah, as I Chronicles 2:6 lists Zerah’s sons as “Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara.” The second Ethan is listed in I Chronicles 6:25, 27, as an ancestor of Asaph the son ...

Click here to hear Eitan pronounced Ethan is the anglicized form of the Hebrew name Eitan. It means strong and steadfast and also refers to a stream whose water flows throughout the year. Although Ethan is a biblical name, it is not the name of any major character. There appear to be three different Ethans in the Bible. The first is mentioned in I Kings : “Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east...For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol” (I Kings 5:10-11). Although I Kings does not identify these men further, one can assume that Mahol was an alternate name for Judah’s son Zerah, as I Chronicles 2:6 lists Zerah’s sons as “Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara.” The second Ethan is listed in I Chronicles 6:25, 27, as an ancestor of Asaph the son of Berechiah. This Ethan was the great, great grandson of Gershom the son of Levi. The third Ethan is also connected to Asaph the son of Be...