2 others in the registry answer to the name Phinehas. Every Phinehas in the Bible
- verses
- 16
- first named
- Exodus 6:25
- last named
- Psalms 106:31
- period
- Egypt and Wilderness
- tribe
- Levi
Description
Who was Phinehas?
Phinehas was the son of Eleazar and the grandson of Aaron, the first high priest of Israel (Exo.6.25). He is most remembered for his zealous act of killing an Israelite man and a Midianite woman who were engaging in sexual immorality and idolatry, thus turning away God's wrath from the people (Num.25.7-11). As a result, God granted Phinehas and his descendants a covenant of perpetual priesthood (Num.25.12-13; Psalm Num.106.30-31).
Phinehas also played important roles in other events. He was sent along with other leaders to confront the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh regarding an altar they had built, which was seen as a potential act of rebellion against God (Jos.22.13-32). He served as a priest during the time of the judges and was consulted before the Israelites went to battle against the tribe of Benjamin (Jdg.20.28).
Phinehas was succeeded by his son Abishua in the line of high priests (1Ch.6.4-5, 50). He was remembered as a faithful priest who had charge of the gatekeepers in the tabernacle (1Ch.9.20) and was part of Ezra's lineage (Ezr.7.5; 8.2).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 14 are drawn. All 14 are listed below.
Child of
- daughter of PutielregistryExodus 6:25
- EleazarregistryExodus 6:25Joshua 22:32Joshua 24:33 +8
Father of
Stands in the same events as
- Chiefs7 events
- Israel4 events
- Gilead3 events
- Moses1 event
- Righteousness1 event
- Canaan1 event
- Reuben1 event
- Battle1 event
- Gad1 event
- Eleazar1 event
- Midian1 event
- Charge1 event
and 4 more, ordered by how many events they share.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Phinehas is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
16 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. Named in Exodus (1), Numbers (3), Joshua (5), Judges (1), 1 Chronicles (3), Ezra (2) and Psalms (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 16, across 7 books. The name is written 17 times in them.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
Where they appear
Chapter by chapter
Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Numbers 25Phinehas took a spear into the tent and killed the Israelite and the Midianite woman, turning the plague aside.
- Numbers 31Phinehas goes into battle with the sanctuary vessels and trumpets for signaling.
- Joshua 22Phinehas carried Israel’s accusation to Gilead, heard the eastern tribes’ defence, and returned satisfied.
- 1 Chronicles 6Phinehas was named as the father of Abishua.
- Psalms 106Phinehas intervened, and the plague was restrained.
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