KJV King James Version
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
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Genesis 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Jacob named the place Peniel, saying, “Indeed, I have seen God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
WEB World English Bible
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, he said, “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
ASV American Standard Version
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for ‘I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;’
Surrounding context — Genesis 32
27 And he said unto him, What [is] thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
31 And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32 Therefore the children of Israel eat not [of] the sinew which shrank, which [is] upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.
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וַיִּקְרָ֧אH7121 · qa.rato call: call toיַעֲקֹ֛בH3290 · ya.a.qovJacobשֵׁ֥םH8034 · shemnameהַמָּק֖וֹםH4725 · ma.qomplaceפְּנִיאֵ֑לH6439 · pe.nu.elPenielכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforרָאִ֤יתִיH7200 · ra.ahto see: seeאֱלֹהִים֙H430 · e.lo.himGodפָּנִ֣יםH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)פָּנִ֔יםH6440 · pa.nehface: beforeוַתִּנָּצֵ֖לH5337 · na.tsalto rescueנַפְשִֽׁי׃H5315 · ne.pheshsoul
Cross-references
Isaiah 6:5Then said I, Woe [is] me! for I am undone; because I [am] a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.Exodus 24:10-11And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness.Numbers 12:8With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?Deuteronomy 5:24And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.Genesis 16:13And she called the name of the LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?Exodus 33:19-23And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.John 1:18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].2 Timothy 1:10But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:Hebrews 11:27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.Exodus 33:14And he said, My presence shall go [with thee], and I will give thee rest.Ephesians 1:17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:2 Corinthians 4:6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.Judges 8:17And he beat down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.Judges 13:21-22But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he [was] an angel of the LORD.1 Kings 12:25Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.Judges 8:8And he went up thence to Penuel, and spake unto them likewise: and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered [him].2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.Galatians 1:6I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
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