Pnuel is a common name given to males in the Assyrian culture. Penuel vs. PnieleditTwo categories of spellings exists, the i type Pniel and Peniel and the u type Pnuel, Penuel and Pnul. The Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia1 prints the i type for Pniel. The u type is only a minor textual variant written as for Pnuel in the critical apparatus. It appears only in the Samaritan Pentateuch, Symmachus, the Peshitta and the Latin Vulgate. Therefore translations like the Luther Bible write Pnul as being directly translated from the Vulgate. So does the KJV, the ESV and the Elberfelder Bibel. But translations like the NIV, the NIr. V and the Schlachter 2. Peniel or Pniel. See alsoeditVayishlach, the Torah reading describing the events at Penuel. Referencesedit This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain Easton, Matthew George 1. Eastons Bible Dictionary New and revised ed. T. Nelson and Sons. Coordinates 3. N3. E 3. N 3. 5. 7. 00E 3.