Strongs Number: H6372
- Hebrew Word
- פִּינְחָס
- Transliteration
- Pîynᵉchâç
- Phonetic
- pee-nekh-aws'
- Part of Speech
- Proper Name Masculine
- Strongs Definition
-
mouth of a serpent; {Pinechas} the name of three Israelites
- BDB Definition
-
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 Eli
3. the father of a helper of Ezra
- Origin
- Apparently from H6310 and a variation of H5175
- Bible Usage
- Phinehas.