mohel
noun
the person who performs the circumcision in the Jewish rite of circumcising a male child on the eighth day after his birth.
mohels
-
pluralof mohel.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
White, in his Newsmax interview, raised the case of an investigation in Antwerp into circumcisions by a small number of mohels, Jewish specialists who perform circumcisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
He also said that Belgium’s health minister, whom he called “very rude”, should change the law to allow mohels to perform circumcisions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
But there were no mohels left in Ukraine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023
Many of these Jews, according to rabbis and the ritual circumcisers known as mohels, are rejecting the classic festive circumcision ceremony, called a brit milah, or bris.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2013
In addition to these, burnt linen, spiders’ webs, starch-powder, powdered alum, and plaster-of-Paris powder are used by different mohels.
From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Peter Charles Remondino
