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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Ethan

masc. proper name, from Hebrew ethan "strong, permanent, perennial, ever-flowing" (of rivers).

Gazetteer
Ethan, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 330
Housing Units (2000): 138
Land area (2000): 0.244340 sq. miles (0.632838 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.244340 sq. miles (0.632838 sq. km)
FIPS code: 20060
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 43.545878 N, 97.983283 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57334
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Ethan (biblical figure)

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 Psalm 89. Charles Spurgeon theorized that this was the same person as Jeduthun.

Ethan means strong and optimistic, solid and enduring; permanent. The name Ethan appears eight times in the Hebrew Bible ( 1 Kgs. 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 Solomon is compared favorably (I Kings 4:31 KJV).

Ethan

Ethan (or Eitan, Eytan or Etan in Hebrew) is a male given name meaning steadfast, strong, firm, and safe.

Ethan (Guardians of Time)

Ethan Roberts is one of the lead characters in the Guardians of Time series by Marianne Curley.

Ethan (given name)

Ethan is a male given name of Hebrew origin ( איתן) that means firm, strong and long-lived. It may also be spelled Eitan or Eytan. Ethan may refer to:

Usage examples of "ethan".

Ethan wondered if the clinic had really been burned to the ground by banditos, or if one of his former patients had come back looking for him.

Ethan could clearly make out many sets of parallel grooves running through the smooth surface.

Although he stood only a few centimeters taller than Ethan, the Tran was nearly twice as broad, yet his semihollow bone structure reduced his weight to little more than that of an average man.

Ethan glimpsed large houses beyond the walls, with curving driveways and lush vegetation skillfully showcased by landscaping lights that gave everything a soft, green glow.

Cut Paper Wrap Stone introduces us to Ethan Ring, a character somewhat like other cyberpunk heroes in his anomie, but less hard- edged and nihilistic -- rather than burnt out and affectless, Ring is plagued by guilt and self-recrimination over his deeds as an interrogator and assassin for the security arm of the pan-European government.

Ethan and the others looked on anxiously as Blanchard put his face to the window in the door and stared into the room beyond.

Chapter Seven The aroma of frying chorizo awakened Ethan the next morning.

Cole apprises Bashir of Ethan Locken’s activities on Sindorin, and recruits Bashir to help stop him.

Past intervening tables where breachers of contracts socialize like friends, Ethan Truman sits on a stool at the bar, in profile to Dunny, staring into a glass that might contain high-quality Scotch.

Ethan studied the inlaid wood, wondering if the chiv marks were polished out after each audience or if the chamber was simply little-used.

When the first explorers came chivaning back, Ethan and the others awaited their reports anxiously.

While Moulokinese protocol was con­ducted in the universal fashion of such matters-which is to say, with teeth-clenching slowness-Williams and Ethan spent a few relaxed moments watching two cubs as they chivaned dangerously but gleefully in and out among the runners of the busy icerafts in the har­bor, ignoring imprecations hurled in their direction by disapproving adults and tired sailors.

It came out of emotional nowheres all of a sudden, and he found himself blubbering at the loss of organized ball, his one gift and other love, his own stupidity and lack of discipline, that blasted cocksucking Ethan From, his Mom's Sir Osis and vegetabilization and his failure after four years ever yet to visit, feeling suddenly lower than bottom-feeder-shit, standing over hot laminates and Polaroid squares and little stick-on D.

Sterility obviously uncompromised, Ethan noted with satisfaction, and his touch with the scalpel had been so delicate that the silvery amniotic sac beneath the tubing was unscored.

Through skeins of rain as fine as angel hair, Ethan could see, in the distance, the final curve of the driveway.