Brown Driver Briggs

 Penuel or Peniel = "facing God"
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1. a Benjamite, son of Shashak, brother of Iphedeiah of the family of
Saul
2. son of Hur, father of Gedor, and a descendant of Judah
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3. the place named by Jacob when he wrestled with God and located on
the north bank of the Jabbok close to the Jordan