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# פְּנוּאֵל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6439

**Peniel** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Peniel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6439/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּנוּאֵל: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6439/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr. (face of God, cf. GFM Ju 8:8; late Assyrian Panîli HilprUniv. Pa. Exp. ix. 68);—Φανουηλ, but in Gn εἶδος (τοῦ) Θεοῦ: loc. E. of Jordan, near Jabboḳ Gn 32:32 Ju 8:8(×2), 9, 17 1 K 12:25 = פְּנִיאֵל Gn 32:31: site unknown; v. especially PaineBib. Sac. 1878, 481 ff. m. in Judah 1 Ch 4:4. in Benjamin 1 Ch 8:25 Qr (Kt פניאל).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Penuel (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.25/#tree)

וְיִפְדְיָ֥ה וּפְנוּאֵ֖ל בְּנֵ֥י שָׁשָֽׁק׃

*Word for word:* and Iphdeiah and Penuel \[were\].the.sons of.Shashak

*JPS 1917:* and Iphdeiah, and Penuel, were the sons of Shashak.

[1 Chronicles 4:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.4/#tree)

וּפְנוּאֵל֙ אֲבִ֣י גְדֹ֔ר וְעֵ֖זֶר אֲבִ֣י חוּשָׁ֑ה אֵ֤לֶּה בְנֵי־חוּר֙ בְּכ֣וֹר אֶפְרָ֔תָה אֲבִ֖י בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם בֵּ֥ית לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* and Penuel \[was\].the.father of.Gedor and Ezer \[was\].the.father of.Hushah these \[were\].the.descendants of.Hur the.firstborn of.Ephrath the.father of Bethlehem

*JPS 1917:* and Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur the first-born of Ephrath, the father of Beth-lehem.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6439/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).