King James Version
Genesis 32:31 in the King James Version says “And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.” — study this verse from Genesis chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.”
Genesis 32:31 · KJV
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.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. Peniel: that is, The face of God
And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
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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“rose”
H2224properly, to irradiate (or shoot forth beams), i.e., to rise (as the sun); specifically, to appear (as a symptom of leprosy)
“the sun”
H8121the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e., (architectural) a notched battlement
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“And as he passed over”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Penuel”
H6439penuel or peniel, a place east of jordan; also (as penuel) the name of two israelites
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“upon his thigh”
H3409the thigh (from its fleshy softness); by euphemistically the generative parts; figuratively, a shank, flank, side
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