מוּל
mûwl · mool
to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
- to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise)
- by implication, to blunt
- figuratively, to destroy
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: circumcise(-ing), selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy, [idiom] must needs.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to fasten and establish › authority, the one who leads
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to fasten and establish of authority, the one who leads.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מוּל above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
37 occurrences · 37 OT · 0 NT · 33 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- circumcised3 · 9%
- shall be circumcised2 · 6%
- be circumcised2 · 6%
- and circumcised2 · 6%
- when he was circumcised2 · 6%
- were circumcised2 · 6%
- circumcise2 · 6%
- i will destroy2 · 6%
- among you shall be circumcised1 · 3%
- must needs1 · 3%
- is not circumcised1 · 3%
- of you be circumcised1 · 3%
- unto us, to be circumcised1 · 3%
- among us be circumcised1 · 3%
- as they are circumcised1 · 3%
- was circumcised1 · 3%
- when thou hast circumcised1 · 3%
- will circumcise1 · 3%
- and circumcise1 · 3%
- did circumcise1 · 3%
- them they had not circumcised1 · 3%
- because they had not circumcised1 · 3%
- circumcising1 · 3%
- let them be as cut in pieces1 · 3%
- it is cut down1 · 3%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.