Strong’s H483 · Hebrew
אִלֵּם
ʼillêm · il-lame'
Origin from אָלַם (H481);
Meaning speechless
In the King James Version dumb (man).
In 6 verses of the King James Version
- 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?
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.