מוּלmûwl

circumcise

Pronunciation: mool · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4135

Meanings

Qal: circumcise (Joshua 5:4; Exodus 12:44; Joshua 5:5)

Niph`al: be circumcised (Genesis 17:26; Genesis 17:27; Genesis 17:11)

Hiph`il: make, to be circumcised (Psalms 118:10; Psalms 118:11; Psalms 118:12)

Hithpa`el: be cut off (Psalms 58:8)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 37 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 17:10 This is the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each male among you must be circumcised.
  • Genesis 17:11 You must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and you.
  • Genesis 17:12 From generation to generation, every male child must be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. This applies not only to members of your family but also to the servants born in your household and the foreign-born servants whom you have purchased.
  • Genesis 17:13 All must be circumcised. Your bodies will bear the mark of my everlasting covenant.
  • Genesis 17:14 Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”
  • Genesis 17:23 On that very day Abraham took his son, Ishmael, and every male in his household, including those born there and those he had bought. Then he circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins, just as God had told him.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).