mul · in front of, opposite

What it means

mul (מוּל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “in front of, opposite”.

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. A preposition for what lies in front of something: «opposite», «before».

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• front ×16
• opposite ×14
• facing ×2
• back ×1
• before ×1
• on ×1
• toward ×1

Where it appears

• Exodus×8
• Leviticus×2
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×6
• Joshua×6
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Micah×1

• Exodus 18:19

  Now listen to my voice; I will advise you, and may Elohim be with you! You be the representative for the people before Elohim, and you bring the cases to Elohim.

• Exodus 26:9

  You shall join five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.

• Exodus 28:25

  and the other two ends of the two cords you shall put on the two settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod at the front of it.

• Exodus 28:27

  You shall make two rings of gold and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, low down, on its front, close to its seam, above the woven band of the ephod.

• Exodus 28:37

  You shall fasten it on a cord of blue, and it shall be on the turban; on the front of the turban it shall be.

• Exodus 34:3

  No man shall come up with you, and also let no man be seen on all the mountain; not even the flocks and the herds shall graze in front of that mountain.”

• Exodus 39:18

  And the other two ends of the two cords they put on the two settings, and they put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, at its front.

• Exodus 39:20

  And they made two rings of gold and put them on the two shoulder pieces of the ephod below, at its front, close to its joining, above the woven band of the ephod.

• Leviticus 5:8

  He shall bring them to the priest, and he shall present the one that is for the sin offering first, and wring its head at the back of its neck, but he shall not divide it.

• Leviticus 8:9

  He put the turban on his head, and on the turban, on its front, he put the gold plate, the holy diadem, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 8:2

  “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you light the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light toward the front of the lampstand.’”

• Numbers 8:3

  And Aaron did so: he lit its lamps toward the front of the lampstand, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 22:5

  And he sent messengers to Balaam son of Beor at Pethor, which is by the River, in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, “Look, a people has come out of Egypt; look, they cover the face of the earth, and they are settling opposite me.

• Deuteronomy 1:1

  These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah, opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.

• Deuteronomy 2:19

  and you will come near opposite the sons of Ammon. Do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.”

• Deuteronomy 3:29

  So we stayed in the valley opposite Beth-peor.

• Deuteronomy 4:46

  beyond the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel struck when they came out of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 11:30

  Are they not beyond the Jordan, behind the road of the sunset, in the land of the Canaanite who lives in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oaks of Moreh?

• Deuteronomy 34:6

  And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; and no man has known his burial place to this day.

• Joshua 8:33

  And all Israel, with its elders and supervisors and its judges, were standing on this side and on that side of the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of YHWH, the resident alien as well as the native, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of YHWH had commanded, to bless the people of Israel at the first.

• Joshua 9:1

  And it came about, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, in the Shephelah, and on all the coast of the Great Sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it,

• Joshua 18:18

  and it passed along to the slope opposite the Arabah on the north, and went down to the Arabah;

• Joshua 19:46

  Me-jarkon and Rakkon, with the territory opposite Joppa.

• Joshua 22:11

  And the sons of Israel heard it said, “Look, the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh have built the altar in front of the land of Canaan, in the regions of the Jordan, on the side of the sons of Israel.”

• 1 Samuel 14:5

  The one tooth rose like a pillar on the north, in front of Michmash, and the other on the south, in front of Geba.

• 1 Samuel 17:30

  He turned from beside him toward another and spoke according to this word; and the people brought him back word according to the first word.

• 2 Samuel 5:23

  David inquired of YHWH, and he said, “You shall not go up; circle around behind them and come at them opposite the balsam trees.

• 2 Samuel 11:15

  He wrote in the letter, saying, “Put Uriah in front of the fiercest battle, and withdraw from behind him, so that he is struck and dies.”

• 1 Kings 7:5

  And all the entrances and the doorposts were square, with frame; and opposite, window to window, three times.

• 1 Kings 7:39

  And he put the bases, five on the side of the house on the right, and five on the side of the house on its left; and the Sea he put on the right side of the house, toward the east, facing south.

• 1 Chronicles 14:14

  David inquired again of Elohim, and Elohim said to him, “You shall not go up after them; circle around away from them and come at them opposite the balsam trees.

• 2 Chronicles 4:10

  And the Sea he put on the right side, eastward, facing south.

• Nehemiah 12:38

  And the second thanksgiving choir went in the opposite direction, and I went after it, and half of the people, on top of the wall, above the Tower of the Ovens, as far as the Broad Wall,

• Micah 2:8

  “And yesterday my people rose up as an enemy; from the front of the garment you strip the cloak from those who pass by trustingly, like those returning from war.

And 2 more times.