Peniel
Εἶδος Θεοῦ
Peniel or PENUEL (i.e. Face of God,
Εἶδος Θεοῦ, LXX.), a place beyond Jordan, where Jaccb wrestled with the angel (Gen. 32.30), and where a town was afterwards founded by the tribe of Gad. (Judges, 8.8.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.