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title: פִּינְחָס — Phinehas · The Tanakh dictionary
description: פִּינְחָס (6372), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 25 times: Phinehas. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# פִּינְחָס

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«פִּינְחָס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Phinehas** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 25 times · **Key:** 6372 · **BDB:** פִּינְחָס

### Glosses

Phinehas (19); of.Phinehas (6)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «פִּינְחָס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6372/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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

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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.

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