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.
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).