Meaning
Ethan e'-than ('ethan, "firm," "enduring"; Gaithan):
(1) A wise man with whom Solomon is compared (1Ki 4:31). Called there "Ethan the Ezrahite," to whom the title of Psa 89 ascribes the authorship of that poem.
(2) A "son of Kishi," or "Kishaiah," of the Merari branch of the Levites, and, along with Heman and Asaph, placed by David over the service of song (1Ch 6:44, 1Ch 15:17, 1Ch 15:19).
See JEDUTHUN.
(3) An ancestor of Asaph of the Gershomite branch of the Levites (1Ch 6:42).
