Word

פְּנוּאֵל

Pᵉnûwʼêl · H6439 · Hebrew · proper noun · 9 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

This name belongs to 2 people

Meanings

  1. Penuel

    Town, also known as Peniel, located on the River Jabbok

    Examples

    Genesis 32:31 Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel, and he was limping on his hip.

    Judges 8:8 Then he went up from there to Penuel and spoke similarly to them; and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth had answered.

    Judges 8:9 So he said also to the men of Penuel, “When I return safely, I will tear down this tower.”

  2. Penuel

    Man; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 4:4 Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These were the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.

  3. Penuel

    Penuel, son of Shashak of the tribe of Benjamin, a family head

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 8:25 Iphdeiah, and Penuel were the sons of Shashak.

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Names of Locations003001010
פְּנוּאֵל names Penuel, the place east of the Jordan where Jacob wrestled with God and named it Peniel, 'the face of God,' in Genesis 32:30 and 32:31, and where Gideon later tore down the tower after the men of Penuel refused to aid him in Judges 8:8, 8:9, and 8:17.
Names of People003001007
This domain reflects the same name's separate use elsewhere in the genealogies for individual men bearing the name Penuel, a facet not directly illustrated among the sampled citations, which describe the place east of the Jordan.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6439. Penuel מְּנוּאֵל proper name (face of God, compare GFM JU 8, 8; late Assyrian…
H6439. Penuel
מְּנוּאֵל proper name (face of God, compare GFM JU 8, 8; late Assyrian Panîli HilprUniv. Pa. Exp. ix. 68); — Φανουηλ, but in Gen εἶδος (τοῦ) θεοῦ:
1. location east of Jordan, near Jabbok Gen 32:32; Jdg 8:8 (twice in verse); Jdg 8:9, Jdg 8:17; 1Ki 12:25 = מְּנִיאֵל Gen 32:31: site unknown; see especially PaineBib.Sac.1878, 481 ff.
2. masculine a. in Judah 1Ch 4:4.
b. in Benjamin 1Ch 8:25 Qr (Kt פניאל).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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