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 Genesis 32:30 describes Jacob assigning the name and his reason for choosing this name. This naming pattern is a highly useful etymological phenomenon which occurs quite regularly and allows us to make connections between root words and phrases.
-(OST) And called Jacob the name of the place Peniel for I have seen God face to face and is preserved my life
+The traditional translation yields "//Jacob called the the place Peniel **for 'I have seen God face to face and is preserved my life**'//"
-(HEB) קרא יעקב שמ מקומ פנואל כי אראה אלהימ פנ אל פנ ציל נפש
-(TRN) qera iyeqeb sem meqom penoal ki arah alehim pen al pen xil nepes
+The direct transliteration of the bolded phrase is:
-(LIT) met Jacob characteristics the place Penoal cause looked the Tree People Edge Ones to Edge Ones deliver souls
+because "[[arah]] [[alehim]] [[pen]] [[al]] [[pen]] [[xil]] [[nepes]]"
+Taken literally, this appears to say "met Jacob characteristics the place Penoal because looked the Tree People Edge Ones to Edge Ones deliver souls"
+The key here is that "penoal" is derived (by Jacob himself) from "[[alehim]] [[pen]] [[al]] [[pen]]" and is obviously intended to be a brief summary of the event that Jacob just experienced here. Therefore, as stated explicitly by Jacob, we know that the word [[al]] and the word [[pen]] are the salient features. We also see that they are connected by a word [[o]] (which might be a preposition, but whose meaning is unclear at this point) - forming pen-o-al.