page_title: Ethan (biblical figure)
hierarchical_section_title: Ethan (biblical figure)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Asaph, David, Neman [Naʿaman der Syrer] und Ethan, Psalmisten des Alten Testaments, in Buntglas in der Liebfrauenkirche zu Liegnitz English: David, Asaph, Deman and Ethan, psalmists of the Old Testament
context_page_description: Ethan the Ezrahite, is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. It may be that Ethan was a cymbal-player in King David's court. He authored Psalms 89: this Psalm is entitled "a maschil or contemplation of Ethan the Ezrahite". Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon theorised that this was the same person as Jeduthun. Theologian John Gill refers to a Jewish tradition which identifies Ethan with Abraham, Heman with Moses, and Chalcol with Joseph.
  Ethan means strong and optimistic, solid and enduring; permanent. The name Ethan appears eight times in the Hebrew Bible.
  He was a standard of wisdom to whom King Solomon is compared favorably. Called there "Ethan the Ezrahite", to whom the title of Psalm 89 ascribes the authorship of that poem.
  A "son of Kishi" or "Kishaiah", of the Merarite branch of Levites, and also, with Heman and Asaph, placed by King David over the service of song.
  An ancestor of Asaph of the Gershomite branch of the Levites.
context_section_description: Ethan (Hebrew: אֵיתָן, Modern: Eytan / Eitan, Tiberian: ʾÊṯān, "Firm") the Ezrahite, is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. It may be that Ethan was a cymbal-player in King David's court. He authored Psalms 89: this Psalm is entitled "a maschil or contemplation of Ethan the Ezrahite". Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon theorised that this was the same person as Jeduthun. Theologian John Gill refers to a Jewish tradition which identifies Ethan with Abraham, Heman with Moses, and Chalcol with Joseph. 
  Ethan means strong and optimistic, solid and enduring; permanent. The name Ethan appears eight times in the Hebrew Bible (1 Kings 4:31, Ps. 89 title, 1 Chr. 2:6 and 2:8, 1 Chr. 6:42 and 6:44, and 1 Chr. 15:17 and 15:19).
  He was a standard of wisdom to whom King Solomon is compared favorably. Called there "Ethan the Ezrahite", to whom the title of Psalm 89 ascribes the authorship of that poem.
  A "son of Kishi" or "Kishaiah", of the Merarite branch of Levites, and also, with Heman and Asaph, placed by King David over the service of song (1 Chronicles 6:44; 1 Chronicles 15:17, 19).
  An ancestor of Asaph of the Gershomite branch of the Levites (1 Chronicles 6:42).
caption: Ethan (far right, in red robe), depicted in the Saint Mary Lutheran Church in Legnica
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