Place east of the Jordan, near the Jabbok River, named by Jacob after his all-night wrestling with the Angel of the LORD (Genesis 32:24-32). The narrative is among the most theologically dense in the OT. As Jacob was returning to Canaan from his twenty-year sojourn with Laban, anticipating his reunion with Esau (whom he had cheated of the birthright and blessing twenty years before), he sent his family and possessions across the Jabbok and remained alone for the night. And there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 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 (Genesis 32:24-28). The man (revealed by Hosea 12:4-5 to be the Angel of the LORD, and theologically identified by the Reformed tradition as a Christophany — a pre-incarnate appearance of the Son) blessed Jacob there. Jacob named the place Peniel / Penuel, face of God: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Jacob walked away with a permanent limp from the touched thigh. The patriarchal-Reformed reader receives Penuel as the supreme OT type of the believer's transformative encounter with the LORD: Jacob the supplanter became Israel the prince-with-God; the encounter was costly (the limp) but blessing-bearing (the new name and identity); the believer is conformed to Christ through similar Penuel-type providential encounters with the LORD's hand on his life.