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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 Box Gen 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10 - This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12 - Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:13 - They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people - he has failed to carry out my requirement."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:24 - Now Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:25

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:26 - Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27 - All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:4

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15 - We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:17 - But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:44 - But everyone's servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - "When a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land - but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:3 - On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:16 - Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:6 - The LORD your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the LORD told Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:4 - This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:5 - Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:7 - He replaced them with their sons, whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:8 - When all the men had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 58:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:7 - Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 90:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:6 - in the morning it glistens and sprouts up; at evening time it withers and dries up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:10 - All the nations surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:11 - They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 118:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:12 - They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the LORD I pushed them away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:4 - Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskin as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment, you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the LORD and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. If you do not, my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you that no one will be able to extinguish. That will happen because of the evil you have done."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:25 - The LORD says, "Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.
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