מוּל
mul
“opposite”
Definition
properly, abrupt, i.e. a precipice; by implication, the front; used only adverbially (with prepositional prefix) opposite
or מוֹל; (Deuteronomy 1:1), or מוֹאל; (Nehemiah 12:38), or מֻל; (Numbers 22:5), from H4135 (מוּל);
- front 1a) front 1b) in the opposite direction prep 2) in front of 2a) in front of 2b) (with prefix) 2b1) towards the front of, to the front of, on the front of 2b2) from the front of, off the front of, close in front of, on the forefront of
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מוּל appears 34 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
So David again inquired of God, who answered him, “Do not march up after them, but circle around them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.
In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows the location of his grave.
Fasten to it a blue cord to mount it on the turban; it shall be on the front of the turban.
Then the Israelites received the report: “Behold, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the border of the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.