Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H6439
פְּנוּאֵל
Penuelpen-oo-ale'
Peniel
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Pᵉnûwʼêl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6439is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6439
Penuel or Peniel, a place East of Jordan; also (as Penuel) the name of two Israelites
The King James renders it: Peniel, Penuel.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Penuel is rendered "Peniel". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 32:30So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
Genesis 32:30פְּנִיאֵ֑ל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in Judges.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Penuel6
- and Penuel2
- Peniel1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּפְנוּאֵל֙1
- וּפְנוּאֵ֖ל1
- פְנוּאֵ֔ל1
- פְנוּאֵ֖ל1
- פְּנוּאֵ֑ל1
- פְּנוּאֵ֔ל1
- פְּנוּאֵ֖ל1
- פְּנוּאֵֽל׃1
- פְּנִיאֵ֑ל1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)7HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)2HC/Npm
Genesis
two uses
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
- פְּנִיאֵ֑לpenielproper noun (a name)tagged: Peniel
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
- פְּנוּאֵ֑לpenuelproper noun (a name)tagged: Penuel
Judges
four uses
From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth.
- פְּנוּאֵ֔לpenuelproper noun (a name)tagged: Penuel
- פְנוּאֵ֔לfenuelproper noun (a name)tagged: Penuel
So Gideon told the men of Penuel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower!”
- פְנוּאֵ֖לfenuelproper noun (a name)tagged: Penuel
He also pulled down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
- פְּנוּאֵ֖לpenuelproper noun (a name)tagged: Penuel
1 Kings
one use
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel.
- פְּנוּאֵֽל׃penuelproper noun (a name)tagged: Penuel
1 Chronicles
two uses
Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah and the father of Bethlehem.
- וּפְנוּאֵל֙ufenuelconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Penuel
Iphdeiah, and Penuel were the sons of Shashak.
- וּפְנוּאֵ֖לufenielconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Penuel
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.