פִּינְחָסPîynᵉchâç
proper name, masculine: Pe-nehasi, the negro
Pronunciation: pee-nekh-aws' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6372
Meanings
1. grandson of Aaron (Exodus 6:25; Numbers 25:7)
2. son of Eli (1 Samuel 1:3; 1 Samuel 2:34; 1 Samuel 4:4)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 25 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 6:25 Eleazar son of Aaron married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she gave birth to his son, Phinehas. These are the ancestors of the Levite families, listed according to their clans.
- Numbers 25:7 When Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up and left the assembly. He took a spear
- Numbers 25:11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest has turned my anger away from the Israelites by being as zealous among them as I was. So I stopped destroying all Israel as I had intended to do in my zealous anger.
- Numbers 31:6 Then Moses sent them out, 1,000 men from each tribe, and Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest led them into battle. They carried along the holy objects of the sanctuary and the trumpets for sounding the charge.
- Joshua 22:13 First, however, they sent a delegation led by Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to talk with the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 22:30 When Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the community—the heads of the clans of Israel—heard this from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, they were satisfied.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).