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
- 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 38:13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
- 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?