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Strong’s H481 · Hebrew

אָלַם

ʼâlam · aw-lam'

Origin a primitive root;

Meaning to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied

In the King James Version bind, be dumb, put to silence.

In 9 verses of the King James Version

  1. Genesis 37:7For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
  2. Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
  3. Psalms 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
  4. Psalms 39:9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
  5. Isaiah 53:7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
  6. Ezekiel 3:26And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
  7. Ezekiel 24:27In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
  8. Ezekiel 33:22Now the hand of the LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
  9. Daniel 10:15And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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