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mo⋅hel

  [Seph. maw-hel; Ashk. moh-heyl, moh-uhl, moi-; Eng. moh-heyl]
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–noun, plural mo⋅hal⋅im  [Seph., Ashk. maw-hah-leem] , English. mo⋅hels. Hebrew.
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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mo·hel   (mō'hěl, -ěl, moil)   
n.   pl. mo·hels also mo·hal·im (-hä-lē'm) or mo·hel·im (-hě-lēm', -ě-)
One who performs circumcision on a Jewish male as a religious rite.

[Mishnaic Hebrew môhēl, active participle of māhal, to circumcise, from Aramaic məhal; akin to Biblical Hebrew māl.]
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