The biblical name פינחס which is pronounced Pay-nakhas in Ghabaray, is actually 100% Egyptian. The name means: “the Negro.” Egyptologists have long known this fact as you can see from the German scholar who wrote the book on Egyptian personal names, Hermann Ranke, in the 1950s. Ranke’s monumental work Die Agyptischen Personennamen is still considered the number one source for the study of Egyptian onomastics. As for the name itself, it is to us unlikely in the extreme that a Ya’ohsharal (Israelite) child would be given this type of name at birth if he, his parents, and his people in general did not share the same phenotype as Negroes from Upper Egypt. Clearly they did. Phonetically speaking we can also conclude that the traditional Tiberian vocalization of this name as pē·nekh·as is evidently incorrect.
