 The Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates him as a saint on September 2.The name "Phinehas" probably comes from the Egyptian name Pa-nehasi, Panehesy ().According to the "Oxford Companion to the Bible", "the Bible also uses Egyptian and Nubian names for the land and its people ... For the Egyptians used to these color variations, the term for their southern neighbors was Neḥesi, 'southerner', which eventually also came to mean 'the black' or 'the Nubian'.