etan · enduring, steady

What it means

etan (אֵיתָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “enduring, steady”.

Firm, lasting, unfailing.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. That always flows, like a river.
2. Firm, lasting.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Enduring ×2
• against the perennial fold ×2
• constant ×2
• ever-flowing ×2
• firm ×1
• hard ×1
• normal flow ×1
• steady ×1
• you perennial ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Amos×1
• Micah×1

• Genesis 49:24

  but his bow remained steady, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from there, the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel,

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned as morning appeared to its normal flow; and the Egyptians, fleeing, met it; and YHWH shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

• Numbers 24:21

  And he saw the Kenites and took up his poem and said, “Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the crag;

• Deuteronomy 21:4

  And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an ever-flowing stream, which is not worked or sown, and they shall break the neck of the heifer there in the stream.

• Job 12:19

  He makes priests walk barefoot, and the firm he subverts.

• Job 33:19

  He is also rebuked with pain on his bed, and all his bones in constant pain,

• Psalms 74:15

  You opened spring and brook; you dried up constant rivers.

• Proverbs 13:15

  Good prudence gives favor, but the way of the treacherous is hard.

• Jeremiah 5:15

  Look, I am bringing against you a nation from far away, house of Israel, declares YHWH; it is an enduring nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know, and you will not understand what they say.

• Jeremiah 49:19

  Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicket of the Jordan against the perennial fold; for in an instant I will make him run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it; for who is like me? And who will summon me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before me?

• Jeremiah 50:44

  Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicket of the Jordan against the perennial fold; for in an instant I will make them run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it; for who is like me? And who will summon me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before me?

• Amos 5:24

  But let justice roll on like the waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

• Micah 6:2

  Hear, mountains, the dispute of YHWH, and you perennial foundations of the earth; for YHWH has a dispute with his people, and with Israel he will argue.