mohel

[ Sephardic Hebrew maw-hel; Ashkenazic Hebrew moh-heyl, moh-uhl, moi-; English moh-heyl ]

noun,plural mo·hal·im [Sephardic Hebrew, Ashkenazic Hebrew maw-hah-leem], /Sephardic Hebrew, Ashkenazic Hebrew ˌmɔ hɑˈlim/, English mo·hels.Hebrew.
  1. the person who performs the circumcision in the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child on the eighth day after his birth.

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How to use mohel in a sentence

  • Here the mohel was taken to a palace, in one of whose apartments was the child's mother lying.

    The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney Hartland
  • He was a mohel, and had one pointed, uncut finger nail, and every pinch went to the heart.

    Stories and Pictures | Isaac Loeb Peretz

British Dictionary definitions for mohel

mohel

/ (ˈmɔɛl, mɔɪl) /


noun
  1. Judaism a man qualified to conduct circumcisions

Origin of mohel

1
from Hebrew

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