Pinchas

Pinchas (also Pinhas , Pinkas , Phinehas or Pinkus ) ( Hebrew פינחס) is a male Jewish given name . Its meaning is usually not derived from Hebrew - the language of the Tanach - but from Egyptian and would then be translated as "the Nubian ".

variants

Phineas

Well-known namesake

Bible

Pinchas (son of Eleazar) , a grandson of Aaron , Israelite high priest
Pinchas (son of Elis) , with his brother Hofni priest in Silo

antiquity

Pinchas ( Phanni ), last high priest of the Jerusalem temple

Pinchas ben Jair (2nd century), Jewish scholar and fourth generation Tannait

Modern times

Pinchas Paul Biberfeld (1915–1999), German rabbi
Pinkas Braun (1923–2008), Swiss actor
Pinchas Burstein (1927–1977), Polish painter
Pinchas Erlanger (1926–2007), Israeli farmer of German origin
Pinchas Goldfein (1902–1982), Polish-German violinist
Pinchas Horowitz (1730–1805), Polish-born rabbi and writer
Pinchas Kahanowitsch (1884–1950), Russian writer
Pinchas Lapide (1922–1997), Jewish religious scholar
Pinchas Lawon (1904–1976), Israeli politician (Labor Party)
Saul Pinchas Rabbinowicz (1845–1910), Russian-born Israeli scholar
Pinchas Rosen (1887–1978), Israeli politician and Minister of Justice
Pinchas Ruthenberg (1879–1942), Russian-born Israeli hydraulic engineer, entrepreneur and Zionist pioneer
Pinchas Sadeh (1929–1994), Polish-born Israeli writer and poet
Pinchas Sapir (1906–1975), Israeli politician (Labor Party) and minister
Pinchas Zukerman (* 1948), Israeli musician and conductor

Juda Löw Pinchas (1727–1793), miniature painter

Others

Pinchas is the name of a Torales section (Parascha) in the month of Tammuz .

literature

Manfred Görg: Article Pinhas. In: Neues Bibellexikon III, 2001, p. 151f
Herman Ranke: The Egyptian personal names. Form, content and history of the names . Augustin, Glückstadt 1986, ISBN 3-87030-001-9