Mul means “destroy” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4135 — plerophoreo (“most surely believe”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4135 מוּל (muwl) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. muwl (mool) v. 1. to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise) 2. (by implication) to blunt It has 33 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include circumcised, circumcise, be, destroy, and when. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
muwl (mool) v. 1. to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise) 2. (by implication) to blunt 3. (figuratively) to destroy [a primitive root] KJV: circumcise(-ing), selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy, X must needs.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4135. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to circumcise
Usage: 1) to circumcise, let oneself be circumcised, cut, be cut off 1a) (Qal) to circumcise 1b) (Niphal) to be circumcised, circumcise oneself 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to be circumcised 1c1) of destruction (fig.) 1d) (Hithpolel) to be cut off 1e) (Polel) cut down
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render muwl, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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33 indexed usages in Old Testament.
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4135.
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them.
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
They compassed me about like bees: they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
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Mul (Strong's H4135) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "destroy". muwl (mool) v. 1. to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise) 2. (by implication) to blunt
This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's H4135 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4135 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as circumcised, circumcise, be, destroy, when, and cut. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.