מוּל mûwl — to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise)
Translated in the KJV as circumcise, selves), cut down, destroy, × must needs.
a primitive root; to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy.
mûwl in each stem
Niph'al
Infinitive construct 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Infinitive absolute 3Perfect (qatal) 2Participle (active) 1Wayyiqtol 1Imperative 1
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 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.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 4Wayyiqtol 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Imperative 1Participle (passive) 1
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 circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 3
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.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Po'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›