Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H483
אִלֵּם
il.lem · “mute”
Used 6 times across 5 books
Definition
mute, silent, dumb, unable to speak
Where it appears
Exodus1
Psalms1
Proverbs1
Isaiah2
Habakkuk1
In the text
Exodus 4:11And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?Psalms 38:14Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.Isaiah 35:6Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.Habakkuk 2:18What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
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