mul · circumcise

What it means

mul (מוּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “circumcise”.

Cut off the foreskin of a male; God made it the sign of his covenant with Abraham and his descendants. Figuratively, circumcise the heart.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To circumcise, also the heart.
2. To strike down and destroy an enemy, cutting him as a branch is cut.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• circumcised ×26
• circumcise ×4
• cut them off ×3
• circumcising ×1
• it withers ×1
• let them be as if blunted ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×16
• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×8
• Psalms×5
• Jeremiah×2

• Genesis 17:10

  This is my covenant which you will keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: every male among you shall be circumcised.

• Genesis 17:12

  At the age of eight days every male among you shall be circumcised throughout your generations, the one born in the house and the one bought with silver from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

• Genesis 17:13

  He must surely be circumcised, the one born in your house and the one bought with your silver; and my covenant will be in your flesh as an eternal covenant.

• Genesis 17:14

  But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”

• Genesis 17:23

  Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house and all those bought with his silver, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, as Elohim had told him.

• Genesis 17:24

  Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Genesis 17:25

  And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

• Genesis 17:26

  On that very day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

• Genesis 17:27

  and all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with silver from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

• Genesis 21:4

  Abraham circumcised Isaac his son when he was eight days old, as Elohim had commanded him.

• Genesis 34:15

  Only on this condition will we consent to you: if you become like us, by circumcising every male among you.

• Genesis 34:17

  But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

• Genesis 34:22

  Only on this condition will the men consent to us to dwell with us, to become one people: when every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

• Genesis 34:24

  All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to Shechem his son, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

• Exodus 12:44

  But any man’s slave bought with silver, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.

• Exodus 12:48

  If a resident alien resides with you and would keep the Passover to YHWH, let all his males be circumcised; then he may come near to keep it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man shall eat of it.

• Leviticus 12:3

  And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

• Deuteronomy 10:16

  So circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and do not be stubborn any longer.

• Deuteronomy 30:6

  And YHWH your Elohim will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, to love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.

• Joshua 5:2

  At that time YHWH said to Joshua, “Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel again, a second time.”

• Joshua 5:3

  So Joshua made for himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at the Hill of the Foreskins.

• Joshua 5:4

  And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: all the people who came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way when they came out of Egypt.

• Joshua 5:5

  For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness on the way when they came out of Egypt they had not circumcised.

• Joshua 5:7

  And their sons, whom he raised up in their place, them Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.

• Joshua 5:8

  And it came about, when all the nation had finished being circumcised, that they stayed in their places in the camp until they recovered.

• Psalms 58:7

  Let them dissolve like water that flows away; when he draws his arrows, let them be as if blunted.

• Psalms 90:6

  in the morning it blooms and is renewed; in the evening it withers and dries up.

• Psalms 118:10

  All nations surrounded me; in the name of YHWH I surely cut them off.

• Psalms 118:11

  They surrounded me, yes, they surrounded me; in the name of YHWH I surely cut them off.

• Psalms 118:12

  They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire of thorns; in the name of YHWH I surely cut them off.

• Jeremiah 4:4

  Circumcise yourselves to YHWH, and remove the foreskins of your heart, men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, or my fury will go out like fire and burn with no one to quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

• Jeremiah 9:25

  Look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will punish all who are circumcised in the foreskin:

And 4 more times.