Penile () is a historic community located in

Jefferson County, Kentucky Jefferson County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 782,969. It is the most populous county in the commonwealth (with more than twice the population of sec ...

, United States. Formerly an unincorporated community, it was designated a neighborhood of

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, when the city of Louisville merged with Jefferson County in 2003. The most prominent sights in Penile are a cemetery and Penile Baptist Church.

Neighborhood name

The origin of the neighborhood's name is believed to be attributed to the biblical place name of ''

Penuel Penuel (or Pnuel; Hebrew: ''Pənūʾēl'') is a place described in the Hebrew Bible as being not far from Succoth, on the east of the Jordan River and south of the river Jabbok in present-day Jordan. Penuel is mentioned in the Book of Genesis ...

'', (also spelled; ''Pneil'', ''Pnuel'';

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: ''Pənūʾēl'') in the

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books of and .

References

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