Strong H483אִלֵּם

mute

Transliteration
'illêm
Pronunciation
il-lame'
Morphology
Hebrew Adjective

Definition

From H481; speechless: - dumb (man).

Detailed definition

mute, silent, dumb, unable to speak

In the Bible

Strong H483 appears in 6 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • dumb5
  • man1

First verses

  1. Exodus 4:11
    And 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?
  2. Psalms 38:13
    But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
  3. Proverbs 31:8
    Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
  4. Isaiah 35:6
    Then 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.
  5. Isaiah 56:10
    His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
  6. Habakkuk 2:18
    What 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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