Pîynᵉchâç — H6372

H6372 · Hebrew — פינחס

Pronunciation: pee-nekh-aws'

Definition

masculine proper noun

Pinechas, the name of three Israelites

  1. Phinehas = "mouth of brass"
  2. 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
  3. a priest and the son of the priest Eli
  4. the father of a helper of Ezra

Usually translated as

Phinehas

Origin

apparently from H6310 and a variation of H5175; mouth of a serpent

Occurrences

Pîynᵉchâç occurs 24 times in 23 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Numbers (3), Joshua (5), Judges (1), 1 Samuel (6), 1 Chronicles (3), Ezra (3), Psalms (1)

Strong's Lexicon — P