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# פִּינְחָס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6372

**Phinehas** — used 25 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Phinehas [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6372/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פִּינְחָס: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6372/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Egyptian Pe-nehasi, the negro, according to Lauth Moses (1868), 71, ZMG xxv (1871), 139 f. cf. NesEg 112, AJSL xiii (1897) 174 Baen Ex 6:25, yet v. Di);— grandson of Aaron, Φ(ε)ινεες, Ex 6:25; Nu 25:7 + 16 times son of Eli 1 S 1:3 (†פִּנְחָם), 2:34; 4:4, 11, 17, 19; 14:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Phinehas (19); of Phinehas (6).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 5:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.30/#tree)

אֶלְעָזָר֙ הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־פִּֽינְחָ֔ס פִּֽינְחָ֖ס הֹלִ֥יד אֶת־אֲבִישֽׁוּעַ׃

*Word for word:* Eleazar he.fathered (et) Phinehas Phinehas he.fathered (et) Abishua

*JPS 1917:* Eleazar begot Phinehas, Phinehas begot Abishua;

[Psalms 106:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.30/#tree)

וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד פִּֽ֭ינְחָס וַיְפַלֵּ֑ל וַ֝תֵּעָצַ֗ר הַמַּגֵּפָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.stood.up Phinehas and he.mediated and it.was.restrained the plague

*JPS 1917:* Then stood up Phinehas, and wrought judgment, and so the plague was stayed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6372.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6372/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).