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Lexicon :: Strong's H4135 - mûl

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מוּל
Transliteration
mûl
Pronunciation
mool
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1161

Strong’s Definitions

מוּל mûwl, mool; a primitive root; to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy:—circumcise(-ing), selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy, × must needs.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x

The KJV translates Strong's H4135 in the following manner: circumcise (30x), destroy (3x), cut down (1x), needs (1x), cut in pieces (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 36x
The KJV translates Strong's H4135 in the following manner: circumcise (30x), destroy (3x), cut down (1x), needs (1x), cut in pieces (1x).

  1. to circumcise, let oneself be circumcised, cut, be cut off

    1. (Qal) to circumcise

    2. (Niphal) to be circumcised, circumcise oneself

    3. (Hiphil) to cause to be circumcised

      1. of destruction (fig.)

    4. (Hithpolel) to be cut off

    5. (Polel) cut down

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מוּל mûwl, mool; a primitive root; to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy:—circumcise(-ing), selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy, × must needs.
STRONGS H4135: Abbreviations
† II. [מוּל] verb circumcise (Late Hebrew id.; Targum מוּל **but only seemingly in the dubious passages (see III. [מָלַל] and Commentaries) Job 14:2; Job 18:16; Job 24:24 [MS Levy], Psalm 37:2; Psalm 90:6. cut off (grass, etc.: only for III. מָלַל, q. v.); compare Late Hebrew מָהַל, Aramaic מְהַל, according to Thes NöZMG xi. 1886, 741 Baib. xii. 1887, 626 see also מהל above); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singularמָל Joshua 5:4 + 2 times; 2nd person masculine singular מַלְתָּה Exodus 12:44; 3rd person masculine plural מָ֫לוּ Joshua 5:5, 7; 2nd person masculine plural מַלְתֶּם Deuteronomy 10:16; Imperfect וַיָּ֫מָל Genesis 17:23 + 2 times; Imperative מֹל Joshua 5:2; Passive participle מוּל Jeremiah 9:24; plural מֻלִים Joshua 5:5; — circumcise, with accusative בשׂר ערלה (flesh of foreskin) Genesis 17:23 (P), accusative pers. Genesis 21:4; Exodus 12:44 (P), Joshua 5:2, 3(J), Joshua 5:4; Joshua 5:5; Joshua 5:7; Joshua 5:7 (D); figurative ערלת לבב (foreskin of the heart) Deuteronomy 10:16; לבב Deuteronomy 30:6; pass, מוּל בערלה Jeremiah 9:24; מֻלִים Joshua 5:5 (D).
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִמּוֺל (Ges§ 72, R. 9) Genesis 17:26; 3rd person masculine plural נִמֹּ֫לוּ Genesis 17:27; 2nd person masculine plural וֹּנְמִלְתֶּם (consecutive) Genesis 17:11 (for וּנְמַלֹּתֶם √ מלל Ew§ 234 e; Ges§ 67 R. 11;, but Bö1146 B for וּנְמוֺלֹתֶם); Imperfect יִמּוֺל Genesis 17:12 + 3 times; 3rd person masculine plural וַיִּמֹּ֫לוּ Genesis 34:24; Imperative הִמֹּ֑לוּ Jeremiah 4:4; Infinitive הִמּוֺל Genesis 17:10 + 5 times; הִמֹּל Genesis 34:15; suffix הִמֹּ֫לוֺ Genesis 17:24, 25; Participle plural נִמֹּלִים Genesis 34:22; — be circumcised, of בשׂר ערלה Genesis 17:14, 24, 25; Leviticus 12:3; elsewhere of person Genesis 17:10 (twice in verse); Genesis 17:12, 13 (twice in verse); Genesis 17:26, 27; Genesis 34:15, 17, 22, 24; Exodus 12:48 (P), Joshua 5:8 (J): reflexive הִמֹּלוּ לי׳ Jeremiah 4:4 circumcise yourselves to Yahweh (and take away the foreskin of your heart).
Hiph. Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural כי אֲמִילִ֑ם בשׁם י׳ Psalm 118:10; Psalm 118:11; Psalm 118:12 in the name of י׳, yea I will make them to be circumcised (enemies, by force of arms; but De cut to pieces (from מוּל = מָלַל), Che mow, Bae annihilate (?), Greek Version of the LXX Aq ἠμυνάμην, Symm διέθρυψα, Jerome ultus sum eas).
Hithp. Imperfect 3rd person masculine plural יִתְמֹלָ֑לוּ Psalm 58:8 be cut off, of arrows, i.e. made blunt.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

17:10; 17:10; 17:11; 17:12; 17:12; 17:13; 17:14; 17:23; 17:23; 17:24; 17:24; 17:25; 17:25; 17:26; 17:26; 17:27; 17:27; 21:4; 34:15; 34:15; 34:17; 34:22; 34:22; 34:24; 34:24

Exodus

12:44; 12:44; 12:48

Leviticus

12:3

Deuteronomy

10:16; 10:16; 30:6

Joshua

5:2; 5:2; 5:3; 5:4; 5:4; 5:5; 5:5; 5:5; 5:5; 5:7; 5:7; 5:7; 5:8

Job

14:2; 18:16; 24:24

Psalms

37:2; 58:8; 90:6; 118:10; 118:11; 118:12

Jeremiah

4:4; 4:4; 9:24; 9:24

H4135

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Strong's Number H4135 matches the Hebrew מוּל (mûl),
which occurs 36 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10 - “This is [the sign of] My covenant, which you shall keep and faithfully obey, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12 - “Every male among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, [including] a servant whether born in the house or one who is purchased with [your] money from any foreigner, who is not of your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:13 - “A servant who is born in your house or one who is purchased with your money must be circumcised; and [the sign of] My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - “And the male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 -

Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were purchased with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin the very same day, as God had said to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:25 - And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - On the very same day Abraham was circumcised, as well as Ishmael his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27 - All the men [servants] of his household, both those born in the house and those purchased with money from a foreigner, were circumcised along with him [as the sign of God’s covenant with Abraham].

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:4 - So Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, just as God had commanded him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15 - “But we will consent to you only on this condition: if you will become like us, in that every male among you consents to be circumcised,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:17 - “But if you do not listen to us and refuse to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter [Dinah] and go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - “But only on this condition will the men consent to our request that they live among us and become one people: that every male among us become circumcised just as they are circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - And every [Canaanite] man who went out of the city gate listened and considered what Hamor and Shechem said; and every male who [fn]was a resident of that city was circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:44 - but every man’s slave who is bought with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - “If a stranger living temporarily among you wishes to celebrate the Passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may participate and celebrate it like one that is born in the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:3 - ‘On the eighth day the flesh of the male child’s foreskin shall be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:16 - “So circumcise [that is, remove sin from] your heart, and be stiff-necked (stubborn, obstinate) no longer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:6 -

“And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants [that is, He will remove the desire to sin from your heart], so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul, so that you may live [as a recipient of His blessing].

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 -

At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise the [new generation of the] sons of Israel as [was done] before.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at [fn]Gibeath-haaraloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:4 - This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness along the way after they left Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:5 - All the males who came out were circumcised, but all the males who were born in the wilderness on the way as they left Egypt had not been circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:7 - So it was their uncircumcised sons whom He raised up in their place, whom Joshua circumcised, because circumcision had not been performed on the way.

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Then, when they had finished circumcising all [the males of] the nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:7 -

Let them flow away like water that runs off;

When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:6 -

In the morning it flourishes and springs up;

In the evening it wilts and withers away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:10 -

All nations encompassed me;

In the name of the LORD I will surely cut them off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:11 -

They encompassed me, yes, they surrounded me [on every side];

In the name of the LORD I will cut them off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:12 -

They swarmed around me like bees;

They flare up and are extinguished like a fire of thorns;

In the name of the LORD I will surely cut them off.

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“Circumcise (dedicate, sanctify) yourselves to the LORD

And remove the foreskin [sins] of your heart,

Men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,

Or else My wrath will go forth like fire [consuming all that gets in its way]

And burn and there will be no one to quench it,

Because of the evil of your acts.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:25

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“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised [physically] and yet uncircumcised [spiritually]—

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