Hebrew verb · H4135
מוּל
mulmool
to circumcise; to circumcise
37 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mûwl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4135is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 33spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4135
to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
The King James renders it: circumcise(-ing), selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy, [idiom] must needs.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mul is rendered "to circumcise; to circumcise". It stands 37 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Seventeen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to circumcise".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 17:10This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
- The Greek text spells it thirty-three different ways.
The first use
This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
Genesis 17:10הִמּ֥וֹל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seventeen of the word's thirty-seven uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to circumcise, and to circumcise.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to circumciseStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 17:10This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you… |
| to circumciseStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he will be circumcised4
- and he circumcised3
- circumcised3
- I fended off them3
- and you will circumcise2
- by being circumcised2
- he circumcised2
- people had circumcised2
- when was circumcised he2
- and he will circumcise1
- and they were circumcised1
- and you will be circumcised1
and 11 more, 37 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 37, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
33 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אֲמִילַֽם׃3
- לְהִמּ֑וֹל2
- מָ֣ל2
- בְּהִמּ֥וֹל1
- בְּהִמֹּל֖וֹ1
- בְּהִ֨מֹּל֔וֹ1
- הִמּ֥וֹל1
- הִמּ֧וֹל1
- הִמּ֧וֹל׀1
- הִמֹּ֣לוּ1
- וַיָּ֜מָל1
- וַיָּ֤מָל1
and 21 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)4HR/VNcc
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVNi3ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms3Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HVhi1cs/Sp3mp
- preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/VNcc/Sp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)2HVNcc
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms
- Hc/VNq2mp1Hc/VNq2mp
- Hc/VNw3mp1Hc/VNw3mp
- Hc/Vqq2mp1Hc/Vqq2mp
- Hc/Vqq2ms1Hc/Vqq2ms
Genesis
seventeen uses
This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
- הִמּ֥וֹלhimolverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: they will be circumcised
You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
- וּנְמַלְתֶּ֕םunemaltemHc/VNq2mptagged: and you will be circumcised
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
- יִמּ֥וֹלyimolverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be circumcised
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.
- הִמּ֧וֹל׀himolverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: definitely be circumcised
- יִמּ֛וֹלyimolverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be circumcised
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
- יִמּוֹל֙yimolverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be circumcised
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
- וַיָּ֜מָלvaiyamolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he circumcised
So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
- בְּהִמֹּל֖וֹbehimolopreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when was circumcised he
and his son Ishmael was thirteen;
- בְּהִ֨מֹּל֔וֹbehimolopreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when was circumcised he
Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.
- נִמּ֖וֹלnimolverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was circumcised
And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
- נִמֹּ֖לוּnimoluverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were circumcised
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
- וַיָּ֤מָלvaiyamolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he circumcised
We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.
- לְהִמֹּ֥לlehimolpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by being circumcised
But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”
- לְהִמּ֑וֹלlehimolpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: by being circumcised
But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.
- בְּהִמּ֥וֹלbehimolpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: when has been circumcised
- נִמֹּלִֽים׃nimolimverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: circumcised
All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.
- וַיִּמֹּ֙לוּ֙vaiyimoluHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were circumcised
Exodus
two uses
But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
- וּמַלְתָּ֣הumaltahHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will circumcise
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
- הִמּ֧וֹלhimolverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will be circumcised
Leviticus
one use
And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
- יִמּ֖וֹלyimolverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be circumcised
Deuteronomy
two uses
Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
- וּמַלְתֶּ֕םumaltemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will circumcise
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
- וּמָ֨לumalHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will circumcise
Joshua
eight uses
At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”
- מֹ֥לmolverb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: circumcise
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
- וַיָּ֙מָל֙vaiyamolHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he circumcised
Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.
- מָ֣לmalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he circumcised
Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.
- מֻלִ֣יםmulimverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: circumcised
- מָֽלוּ׃maluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people had circumcised
And Joshua raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones he circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.
- מָ֣לmalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he circumcised
- מָ֥לוּmaluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: people had circumcised
And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.
- לְהִמּ֑וֹלlehimolpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to be circumcised
Psalms
five uses
May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
- יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃yitmolaluverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: let them be cut off
in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
- יְמוֹלֵ֥לyemolelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it withers
All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- אֲמִילַֽם׃ʾamilamverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I fended off them
They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- אֲמִילַֽם׃ʾamilamverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I fended off them
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- אֲמִילַֽם׃ʾamilamverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: I fended off them
Jeremiah
two uses
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
- הִמֹּ֣לוּhimoluverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: circumcise yourselves
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
- מ֖וּלmulverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: circumcised
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.