H6372 — פִּינְחָס (Pîynᵉchâç)

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Strong's H6372 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: פִּינְחָס (Pîynᵉchâç)

Pronunciation: pee-nekh-aws'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Phinehas = "mouth of brass"

Derivation: apparently from פֶּה (peh) [H6310] and a variation of נָחָשׁ (nâchâsh) [H5175]; mouth of a serpent;

Definition: Pinechas, the name of three Israelites

KJV Renderings: Phinehas.

Senses

  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

Cross References

Strong's Original Transliteration Derivation Definition KJV Renderings
H5175 נָחָשׁ nâchâsh from נָחַשׁ (nâchash) H5172 a snake (from its hiss) serpent
H6310 פֶּה peh from פָּאָה (pâʼâh) H6284 the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), [idiom] eat, edge, end, entry, [phrase] file, hole, [idiom] in, mind, mouth, part, portion, [idiom] (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, [idiom] spoken, talk, tenor, [idiom] to, [phrase] two-edged, wish, word

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.