Lexicon / H0388
אֵיתָנִים
e.ta.nim
  • Ethanim
  • perennial
  • ever-flowing
  • permanent
  • steady flow
  • permanence

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: Ethanim

§ Ethanim = "enduring"

seventh Jewish month, corresponding to modern Oct. to Nov.; so named because permanent streams still flowed

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: perennial; ever-flowing; permanent; steady flow; permanence

Root √יתן: יתן ירח אתנם Arabic Arabic be perpetual, never-failing a permanent thing (√ of foll.; cf. Ar. esp. of water,: Ph.CIS I. i. 86 A; W P6BA 1886 (ix), 47).

אֵיתָן אֵתָן adj perennial ever-flowing permanent steady flow permanence . fig. as subst.