In the Hebrew Bible Ethni (Hebrew: אֶתְנִי "my hire") was an ancestor of Asaph, of the Gershonite branch of the Levites. David assigned him to the music ministry of the Lord's house ().[1] In ,[2] the same person is referred to as "Jeatherai" (KJV spells it "Jeaterai").[3]

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  1. ^ Due to differences in versification, some Bibles call this verse 1 Chronicles 6:26
  2. ^ Due to differences in versification, some Bibles call this 1 Chronicles 6:6
  3. ^ T. K. Cheyne & J. Sutherland Black (eds.) (1901 [1899]). "Ethni". Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political, and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible. Vol. 2, E-K. New York: The Macmillan Company.