Strong's Hebrew: 6439. פְּנוּאֵל (Penuel) -- "face of God," a place East of the Jordan, also two Israelites

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Penuel: "face of God," a place East of the Jordan, also two Israelites

Original Word: פְּנוּאֵל
Part of Speech: proper name; location; masculine a.
Transliteration: Penuel
Phonetic Spelling: (pen-oo-ale')
Short Definition: Penuel

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from panim and el
Definition
"face of God," a place E. of the Jordan, also two Isr.
NASB Translation
Peniel (1), Penuel (8).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מְּנוּאֵל proper name (face of God, compare GFM^{JU 8, 8}; late Assyrian Panîli Hilpr^{Univ. Pa. Exp. ix. 68}); — Φανουηλ, but in Gen εἶδος (τοῦ) θεοῦ:

1. location east of Jordan, near Jabbok Genesis 32:32; Judges 8:8 (twice in verse); Judges 8:9,17; 1 Kings 12:25 = מְּנִיאֵל Genesis 32:31: site unknown; see especially Paine^{Bib.Sac.1878,481 ff.}

2. masculine a. in Judah 1 Chronicles 4:4.

b. in Benjamin 1 Chronicles 8:25 Qr (Kt פניאל).

Strong's

Peniel, Penuel

Or (more properly,) Pniylel {pen-oo-ale'}; from panah and 'el; face of God; Penuel or Peniel, a place East of Jordan; also (as Penuel) the name of two Israelites -- Peniel, Penuel.

see HEBREW panah

see HEBREW 'el