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HebrewH6372Proper Noun (Masculine)

פִּינְחָס

pin.chas

22Occurrences
H6372Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Pinechas, the name of three Israelites

apparently from H6310 (פֶּה) and a variation of H5175 (נָחָשׁ); mouth of a serpent;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at ; son of: Eleazar (H0499) and the daughter_of_Putiel (H6317H); father of: Abishua (H0050) § Phinehas = "mouth of brass" 1) son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron; his zealousness for the Lord averted a plague on Israel and gained him the promise of the Lord of an everlasting priesthood in his family 2) a priest and the son of the priest ) the father of a helper of Ezra

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

פִּינְחָס appears 22 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Samuel
7
Joshua
5
Ezra
3
Numbers
3
1 Chronicles
1
Exodus
1
Judges
1
Psalms
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 9:20BSB

In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar had been in charge of the gatekeepers, and the LORD was with him.

1 Samuel 4:4BSB

So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

Exodus 6:25BSB

Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas.These were the heads of the Levite families by their clans.

Judges 20:28BSB

and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?”The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”

Joshua 22:32BSB

Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, together with the other leaders, returned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report regarding the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.