<p>Yes, Phinehas is likely an English translation. I haven’t studied the history of the assembling of the OT recently, so I won’t judge what is legitimate and what isn’t.</p>
<p>My main point was that the poster wanted an ENGLISH name that was also used in the Bible and that a professor would be familiar with. Since I have never met anyone named either Pinchas or Phinehas, and it is certainly not as well-known as Jacob, I think Bobert would do better to stick with Jacob, as he said he was planning to do.</p>