pinchas · Phinehas

What it means

pinchas (פִּינְחָס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Phinehas”.

The name of two priests: the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron (Numbers 25:7) and one of the two sons of Eli (1 Samuel 1:3); also the father of a priest after the exile (Ezra 8:33).

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Numbers×3
• Joshua×5
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×7
• 1 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×3
• Psalms×1

• Exodus 6:25

  Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

• Numbers 25:7

  When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose from the midst of the community and took a spear in his hand.

• Numbers 25:11

  “Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the sons of Israel when he was jealous with my jealousy among them, and I did not make an end of the sons of Israel in my jealousy.

• Numbers 31:6

  Moses sent them, a thousand from each tribe, to the army, them and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, to the army, and the holy articles and the trumpets of acclamation were in his hand.

• Joshua 22:13

  And the sons of Israel sent to the sons of Reuben, to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest,

• Joshua 22:30

  And Phinehas the priest, and the chiefs of the community, and the heads of the thousands of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh spoke, and it was good in their eyes.

• Joshua 22:31

  And Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the sons of Reuben, to the sons of Gad, and to the sons of Manasseh, “Today we know that YHWH is in our midst, because you have not committed this unfaithfulness against YHWH. Now you have delivered the sons of Israel from the hand of YHWH.”

• Joshua 22:32

  Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel, and they brought back word to them.

• Joshua 24:33

  And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill country of Ephraim.

• Judges 20:28

  and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was standing before it in those days— saying, “Shall I again go out once more to war with the sons of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?” And YHWH said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will give him into your hand.”

• 1 Samuel 1:3

  That man used to go up from his city year after year to bow down and to sacrifice to YHWH Tsevaot in Shiloh; and there were the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests of YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 2:34

  And this will be the sign for you, what will come upon your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day both of them will die.

• 1 Samuel 4:4

  So the people sent to Shiloh, and they carried from there the ark of the covenant of YHWH Tsevaot, who sits on the cherubim; and there were the two sons of Eli with the ark of the covenant of Elohim, Hophni and Phinehas.

• 1 Samuel 4:11

  And the ark of Elohim was taken, and the two sons of Eli died, Hophni and Phinehas.

• 1 Samuel 4:17

  And the one who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and also there has been a great slaughter among the people, and also your two sons are dead, Hophni and Phinehas, and the ark of Elohim has been taken.”

• 1 Samuel 4:19

  Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And she heard the news that the ark of Elohim had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, and she crouched down and gave birth, for her pains came over her.

• 1 Samuel 14:3

  And Ahijah son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, priest of YHWH at Shiloh, was carrying the ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

• 1 Chronicles 6:4

  Eleazar fathered Phinehas; Phinehas fathered Abishua;

• 1 Chronicles 6:50

  And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar, his son; Phinehas, his son; Abishua, his son;

• 1 Chronicles 9:20

  And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was leader over them in former times; YHWH was with him.

• Ezra 7:5

  the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the head priest:

• Ezra 8:2

  of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush,

• Ezra 8:33

  And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the utensils were weighed in the house of our Elohim by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas, and with them were Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levites:

• Psalms 106:30

  Then Phinehas stood up and intervened, and the plague was stopped.

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