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ETHAN

(Heb. ʾêṯān)

1. A famous sage, one of the sons of Mahol (an orchestral guild?) and brother of Heman, Calcol, and Darda, whose wisdom was surpassed by Solomon’s (1 Kgs. 4:31[MT 5:11]). He is called “the Ezrahite” (Heb. haʾezrāḥî; cf. Ps. 89 superscription[1], possibly designating a member of a pre-Israelite group.

2. A descendant of Zerah, Judah’s son by his daughter-in-law Tamar, and father of Azariah (1 Chr. 2:6, 8; cf. Gen. 38:30). His connection with Heman and Calcol supports his identification with Ethan 1 above.

3. The son of Zimmah and father of Adaiah, an ancestor of Asaph (1 Chr. 6:41-42[26-27]).

4. A Merarite Levite (1 Chr. 6:44[29]), the son of Kishi (or Kushaiah; cf. 15:17). He was one of the three Levites David appointed over the “service of song” in the temple (1 Chr. 6:31-48[16-33]), probably to be equated with Jeduthun in 16:41-42; 25:1-3.

Tyler F. Williams






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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