Strong
אֵיתָןStrong’s H0386etan (e-tan)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Etan is the Hebrew word usually translated “enduring”, “ever-flowing” and “permanence”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)”
Meaning
- Perpetual, constant, perennial, ever-flowingever-flowing (of a stream) · permanence, permanent, enduring (fig.)
How it's translated
- enduring 3
- ever-flowing 3
- an ever-flowing 2
- in permanence 1
- to normal its 1
- and long established 1
- constant 1
- and o enduring 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 3
- Job 2
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- Deuteronomy 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 14:27And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.
- Numbers 24:21And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
- Deuteronomy 21:4And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
- Job 12:19He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.
- Job 33:19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:
- Psalms 74:15Thou didst cleave the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up mighty rivers.
Hebrew dictionary
אֵיתָן etan · strong
1) perpetual, constant, perennial, ever-flowing 1a) ever-flowing (of a stream) 1b) permanence, permanent, enduring (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “strong” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRONG, adjective
[G., Latin The sense of the radical word is to stretch, strain, draw, and probably from the root of stretch and reach.]
- Having physical active power, or great physical power; having the power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.“That our oxen may be strong to labor” Psalms 144:14
- Having physical passive power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; solid; as a constitution strong enough to bear the fatigues of a campaign.
- Well fortified; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as a strong fortress or town.
- Having great military or naval force; powerful; as a strong army or fleet; a strong nation; a nation strong at sea.
All definitions
- Having great wealth, means or resources; as a strong house or company of merchants.
- Moving with rapidity; violent; forcible; impetuous; as a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; we had a strong tide against us.
- Hale; sound; robust; as a strong constitution.
- Powerful; forcible; cogent; adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; as a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example or instance.
- Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as a strong partisan; a strong whig or tory.
- Having virtues of great efficacy; or having a particular quality in a great degree; as a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea; strong coffee.
- Full of spirit; intoxicating; as strong liquors.
- Affecting the sight forcibly; as strong colors.
- Affecting the taste forcibly; as the strong flavor of onions.
- Affecting the smell powerfully; as a strong scent.
- Not of easy digestion; solid; as strong meat. Hebrews 5:7
- Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as a custom grown strong by time.
- Violent; vehement; earnest.“Who in the day of his flesh, when he offered up prayers with strong crying and tears--” Hebrews 5:7
- Able; furnished with abilities.
- Having great force of mind, of intellect or of any faculty; as a man of strong powers of mind; a man of a strong mind or intellect; a man of strong memory, judgment or imagination.
- Having great force; comprising much in few words.
- Bright; glaring; vivid; as a strong light.
- Powerful to the extent of force named; as an army ten thousand strong
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.