HOPHNI

(Hophʹni) [tadpole, hollow of hand].

One of High Priest Eli’s sons. Hophni and his brother Phinehas were “good-for-nothing men,” guilty of sacrilegious conduct and gross immorality. (1 Sam. 1:3; 2:12-17, 22-25) Because of this unfaithfulness while serving as priest at Jehovah’s sanctuary in the twelfth century B.C.E., Jehovah judged Hophni worthy of death, which befell him at the time the Philistines captured the sacred Ark.—1 Sam. 2:34; 4:4, 11, 17; see PHINEHAS No. 2.