To circumcise
מוּלStrong’s H4135mul
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mul is the Hebrew word usually translated “circumcised”, “fended off them” and “when was circumcised he”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.”
Meaning
- To circumcise, let oneself be circumcised, cut, be cut off(Qal) to circumcise · (Niphal) to be circumcised, circumcise oneself · (Hiphil) to cause to be circumcised · (Hithpolel) to be cut off · (Polel) cut down
How it's translated
- he will be circumcised 4
- and he circumcised 3
- circumcised 3
- i fended off them 3
- when was circumcised he 2
- by being circumcised 2
- and you will circumcise 2
- he circumcised 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 15
- Joshua 6
- Psalms 5
- Exodus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
- Jeremiah 2
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 17:11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
- Genesis 17:12And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
- Genesis 17:13He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
- Genesis 17:14And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
- Genesis 17:23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
- Genesis 17:24And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Hebrew dictionary
מוּל mul · to circumcise
1) to circumcise, let oneself be circumcised, cut, be cut off 1a) (Qal) to circumcise 1b) (Niphal) to be circumcised, circumcise oneself 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to be circumcised 1c1) of destruction (fig.) 1d) (Hithpolel) to be cut off 1e) (Polel) cut down
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “circumcise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CIRCUMCISE, verb transitive
To cut off the prepuce or foreskin of males; a ceremony or rite in the Jewish and Mohammedan religions. The word is applied also to a practice among some nations of performing a like operation upon females.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.