The site was clearly not far from Succoth but no certainty is yet possible. A difficulty that seems fatal to this identification is that here the banks of the Jabbok are so precipitous as to be impassable. Merrill would identify it with Telul edh-Dhahab, "hills of gold," two hills with ruins that betoken great antiquity, and that speak of great strength, on the South of the Jabbok, about 10 miles East of Jordan (for description see Merrill, East of the Jordan, 390 if). It was one of the towns "built" or fortified by Jeroboam ( 1 Kings 12:25). When he returned victorious, he beat down the place because of the churlishness of the inhabitants ( Judges 8:8,9,17). This lay in the line of Gideon's pursuit of the Midianites. In later times a city with a strong tower stood upon it.
In the Hebrew language all words are related to something concrete or physical, something that can be observed by one of the five senses. When you don’t make an effort to pronounce each syllable of each word properly and words get slurred together, it can be hard for listeners, audiences, interviewers, etc., to decipher what youre saying. Such a cliff on the seashore to the South of Tripoli was called theou prosopon, "face of God" (Strabo xvi.2,15 f). The Hebrew word hhai is usually translated as life. For listeners, one of the most irritating speech habits is a speaker that doesn’t enunciate clearly. Some have thought it might be a prominent cliff, the contour of which resembled a human face. In the next verse and elsewhere it appears as "Penuel." The name is said to have been given to the place by Jacob after his night of wrestling by the Jabbok, because, as he said, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." It was a height evidently close by the stream over which Jacob passed in the morning. Catholic Encyclopedia: 'The Sacred Name-the word Jesus is the Latin form of the Greek Iesous which in turn is the transliteration of the Hebrew Jeshua, or Joshua, or again Jehoshua, meaning 'Jehovah is salvation,'' Vol. Issues with finding and replacing characters in right-to-left, Indic, and Southeast Asian languages. The following example shows selecting an Arabic word that has a three-character ligature (as each character is selected). This is the form of the name in Genesis 32:30. Each ligature and diacritic is managed as a discrete unit of a right-to-left language word. Pe-ni'-el, pen'-i-el, pe'-ni-el (peni'el, "face of God" Eidos theou):
Encyclopedias - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Peniel
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