מוּלmûwl

לְמוֺא֯ל: read לַשְּׂמאֹל, see שׂמאל (Nehemiah 12:38)

Pronunciation: mool · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4136

Meanings

מוּל: front, in front of

1. front, in the opposite direction (1 Kings 7:5; Nehemiah 12:38; Nehemiah 12:31)

2. as preposition, With prefixes (Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 2:19; Deuteronomy 3:29)

a. towards the front of, to the front of (1 Samuel 17:30; Exodus 34:3; Exodus 8:33)

b. from the front of, off (Micah 2:8; Leviticus 5:8; Numbers 22:5)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 36 times in the Bible.

  • Exodus 18:19 Now listen to me, and let me give you a word of advice, and may God be with you. You should continue to be the people’s representative before God, bringing their disputes to him.
  • Exodus 26:9 Join five of these curtains together to make one long curtain, and join the other six into a second long curtain. Allow 3 feet of material from the second set of curtains to hang over the front of the sacred tent.
  • Exodus 28:25 Tie the other ends of the cords to the gold settings on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod.
  • Exodus 28:27 And make two more gold rings and attach them to the front of the ephod, below the shoulder-pieces, just above the knot where the decorative sash is fastened to the ephod.
  • Exodus 28:37 Attach the medallion with a blue cord to the front of Aaron’s turban, where it must remain.
  • Exodus 34:3 No one else may come with you. In fact, no one is to appear anywhere on the mountain. Do not even let the flocks or herds graze near the mountain.”
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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).