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# פְּנוּאֵל

Biblical Hebrew

**Peniel** — used 6 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/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e0_5d5_5bc_5d0_5b5_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פְּנוּאֵל: n.pr. loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e0_5d5_5bc_5d0_5b5_5dc/#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, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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 (3); of Penuel (3).

## In the verses

[Judges 8:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.8.17/#tree)

וְאֶת־מִגְדַּ֥ל פְּנוּאֵ֖ל נָתָ֑ץ וַֽיַּהֲרֹ֖ג אֶת־אַנְשֵׁ֥י הָעִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.tower of.Penuel he.tore.down and he.killed (et) the.men of the.city

*JPS 1917:* And he broke down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

[Genesis 32:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.32/#tree)

וַיִּֽזְרַֽח־ל֣וֹ הַשֶּׁ֔מֶשׁ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר עָבַ֖ר אֶת־פְּנוּאֵ֑ל וְה֥וּא צֹלֵ֖עַ עַל־יְרֵכֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.rose to him the sun when he.passed.over (et) Penuel and he \[was\].limping on thigh his

*JPS 1917:* And the sun rose upon him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped upon his thigh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e0_5d5_5bc_5d0_5b5_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/lemma_3a_5e4_5b0_5bc_5e0_5d5_5bc_5d0_5b5_5dc/): 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).