Mûwl — H4135

Definition

verb

to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy

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

Usually translated as

circumcise, destroy, circumcising, cut down, must needs

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• amýnomai (G292)
• asthenéō (G770)
• érchomai (G2064)
• échō (G2192)
• hórion (G3725)
• peritémnō (G4059)
• peritomḗ (G4061)

Occurrences

Mûwl occurs 37 times in 33 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (15), Exodus (2), Leviticus (1), Deuteronomy (2), Joshua (6), Psalms (5), Jeremiah (2)

• Genesis 17:10 — 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 (הִמּ֥וֹל).
• Genesis 17:11 — And ye shall circumcise (וּנְמַלְתֶּ֕ם) the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
• Genesis 17:12 — And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised (יִמּ֥וֹל) 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 17:13 — He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised (יִמּ֛וֹל): and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
• Genesis 17:13 — He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised (הִמּ֧וֹל): and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
• Genesis 17:14 — And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised (יִמּוֹל֙), that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
• Genesis 17:23 — And 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 (וַיָּ֜מָל) the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
• Genesis 17:24 — And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised (בְּהִמֹּל֖וֹ) in the flesh of his foreskin.
• Genesis 17:25 — And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised (בְּהִ֨מֹּל֔וֹ) in the flesh of his foreskin.
• Genesis 17:26 — In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised (נִמּ֖וֹל), and Ishmael his son.
• Genesis 17:27 — And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised (נִמֹּ֖לוּ) with him.
• Genesis 21:4 — And Abraham circumcised (וַיָּ֤מָל) his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
• Genesis 34:15 — But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised (לְהִמֹּ֥ל);
• Genesis 34:17 — But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised (לְהִמּ֑וֹל); then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
• Genesis 34:22 — Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised (בְּהִמּ֥וֹל), as they are circumcised.
• Genesis 34:22 — Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised (נִמֹּלִֽים).
• Genesis 34:24 — And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised (וַיִּמֹּ֙לוּ֙), all that went out of the gate of his city.
• Exodus 12:44 — But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised (וּמַלְתָּ֣ה) him, then shall he eat thereof.
• Exodus 12:48 — And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised (הִמּ֧וֹל), and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
• Leviticus 12:3 — And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised (יִמּ֖וֹל).
• Deuteronomy 10:16 — Circumcise (וּמַלְתֶּ֕ם) therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
• Deuteronomy 30:6 — And the LORD thy God will circumcise (וּמָ֨ל) thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
• Joshua 5:2 — At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise (מֹ֥ל) again the children of Israel the second time.
• Joshua 5:3 — And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised (וַיָּ֙מָל֙) the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
• Joshua 5:4 — And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise (מָ֣ל): All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
• Joshua 5:5 — Now all the people that came out were circumcised (מֻלִ֣ים): but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
• Joshua 5:5 — Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised (מָֽלוּ).
• Joshua 5:7 — And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised (מָ֣ל): for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
• Joshua 5:7 — And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised (מָ֥לוּ) them by the way.
• Joshua 5:8 — And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising (לְהִמּ֑וֹל) all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
• Psalms 58:7 — Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces (יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ).
• Psalms 90:6 — In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down (יְמוֹלֵ֥ל), and withereth.
• Psalms 118:10 — All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy (אֲמִילַֽם) them.
• Psalms 118:11 — They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy (אֲמִילַֽם) them.
• Psalms 118:12 — They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy (אֲמִילַֽם) them.
• Jeremiah 4:4 — Circumcise yourselves (הִמֹּ֣לוּ) to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
• Jeremiah 9:25 — Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised (מ֖וּל) with the uncircumcised;