Ether
עֶ֫תֶרStrong’s H6281eter (e-ter)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Eter is the Hebrew word usually translated “ether”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,”
Meaning
- § Ether = "abundant"
How it's translated
- and ether 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עֶ֫תֶר eter · Ether
§ Ether = "abundant" a town in the lowlands of Judah allotted to Simeon
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “ether” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
E'THER, noun
[Latin oether; Gr. to burn, to shine; Eng. weather.]
- A thin, subtil matter, much finer and rarer than air, which, some philosophers suppose, begins from the limits of the atmosphere and occupies the heavenly space.
- In chimistry, a very light, volatile and inflammable fluid, produced by the distillation of alcohol or rectified spirit of wine, with an acid.
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.