פְּנוּאֵלPᵉnûwʼêl

proper name: face of God, Panîli

Pronunciation: pen-oo-ale' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6439

Meanings

1. east of Jordan, near Jabbok, site unknown (Genesis 32:32; Judges 8:8; Judges 8:9)

2.

a. in Judah (1 Chronicles 4:4)

b. in Benjamin (1 Chronicles 8:25)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 9 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 32:30 Jacob named the place Peniel (which means “face of God”), for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been spared.”
  • Genesis 32:31 The sun was rising as Jacob left Peniel, and he was limping because of the injury to his hip.
  • Judges 8:8 From there Gideon went up to Peniel and again asked for food, but he got the same answer.
  • Judges 8:9 So he said to the people of Peniel, “After I return in victory, I will tear down this tower.”
  • Judges 8:17 He also tore down the tower of Peniel and killed all the men in the town.
  • 1 Kings 12:25 Jeroboam then built up the city of Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and it became his capital. Later he went and built up the town of Peniel.
See every passage

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).