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pīnᵊḥās פִּינְחָס ‘Phinehas’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: apparently from peh פֶּה ‘lip’ and a variation of nāḥāš נָחָשׁ ‘serpent’
Roots: פה נחשׁ

pīnᵊḥās pr n m pers
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

Mentioned in Exodus 6:25 Numbers 25:7, 25:11, 31:6 Joshua 24:33, 22:31, 22:13, 22:32, 22:30 Judges 20:28 1 Samuel 2:34, 14:3, 1:3, 4:19, 4:4, 4:11, 4:17 Psalms 106:30 Ezra 7:5, 8:33, 8:2 1 Chronicles 5:30, 6:35, 9:20

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