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מוּל

mûwl · H4136 · Hebrew · 36 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. in front of, facing, towards

    Relational linking an event to a location right in front of another location

    Examples

    Exodus 26:9 “You shall join five curtains by themselves and the other six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.

    Exodus 28:25 “You shall put the other two ends of the two cords on the two filigree settings, and put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, at the front of it.

    Exodus 28:27 “And you shall make two rings of gold and put them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it close to the place where it is joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

  2. Relational linking an event to a frame of reference rather than a physical location ((to represent people) before (God))

    Examples

    Exodus 18:19 “Now listen to me: I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You be the people’s representative before God, and you bring the disputes to God,

How it’s used In 1 role

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4 occurrences in 2 groups

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Space002002001017
This homographic מוּל is a preposition meaning "in front of" or "opposite," as in Exodus 26:9's curtain doubled over "at the front of the tent," placing it among terms for spatial position.
Connection002003
The same preposition also expresses relational orientation toward something, as reflected in its gloss '(God-)ward, toward, with,' tying spatial facing to a relational connection between two things.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מוּל mûwl · H4135 · to circumcise, circumcision · 34×מוּלmûwl · H4136מוּלָה mûwlâh · H4139 · circumcision · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4136. mul or mol or mol or mul לְמוֺא֯ל Neh 12:38 read לַשְּׂמאֹל, see שׂמאל. I. מוֺל…
H4136. mul
or mol or mol or mul לְמוֺא֯ל Neh 12:38 read לַשְּׂמאֹל, see שׂמאל.
I. מוֺל מוּל, ( Deu 1:1), מוֺאל ( Neh 12:38)
substantive and
preposition front, in front of (derivatives dubious; according to Ol§ 223 c Sta§ 378 a, for מְאוֺל from אוּל to be in front: see further Köii. 300 f. HptBAS i. 172): —
1. substantive only 1Ki 7:5 (si vera 1.: see StaZAW 1883, 151) אֶלמֶֿחֱזָה מֶחֱזָה וּמוּל and the front of (one) window was towards (the other) window, and Neh 12:38 לְמוֺאל = in the opposite direction (but read probably לִשְׂמאוֺל, compare לַיָּמִין Neh 12:31). 2 as
preposition, Deu 1:1; Deu 2:19 עמון בני מוּל in front of the Ammonites, Deu 3:29 (= Deu 4:46; Deu 34:6) פעור בית מוּל, Deu 11:30; Jos 18:18; Jos 19:46 יָפוֺ מוּל 1Sa 14:5 (twice in verse); figurative Exo 18:19 האלהים מול לעם אַתָּה הֱיֵה in front of God, i.e. representing God to them. With prefixes: —
a. אלמֿול towards the front of, 1Sa 17:30 וַיִּסֹב אַחֵר אֶלמֿוּל מֵאֶצְלוֺ to the front of another; on the front of, Exo 34:3 (pregnantly) ההר אלמֿול וְאַליִֿרְעוּ, Joel Exodus 8:33 (twice in verse); Exo 9:1; Exo 22:11 (see WAWJPhoenician xiii. 117 ff.); specifically אֶלֿ מְּנֵי מוּל towards or on the forefront of, Exo 26:9; Exo 28:25 (|| Exo 39:18), Exo 39:37; Lev 8:9; Num 8:2-3, 2Sa 11:15 set ye Uriah המלחמה פני אלמֿול.
b. מִמּוּל: — (a) from the front of, Mic 2:8 (text dubious: read probably מֵעַל). (b) of position, off (see מן
1c) the front of, Lev 5:8 עָרְמּוֺ מִמּוּל off the front of its neck, i.e. close in front of it, Num 22:5 מִמֻּלִי יושׁב והוא close in front of me, 2Sa 5:23 (1Ch 14:14) להם ובאת בכאים ממול come to them off the front of the mulberry-trees, 1Ki 7:39 (2Ch 4:10) נֶגֶב מִמּוּל; מָּנָיו מִמּוּל on the forefront of, Exo 28:27 (|| Exo 39:20).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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