H483: אִלֵּם
ʼillêm · pronounced il-lame' · “mute”
Definition
speechless
KJV translates it as: dumb (man).
Word origin: from H481 (אָלַם);
Extended definition
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H483 is translated
- dumb ×3
- a dumb person ×2
- the dumb ×1
Bible verses with H483 (ʼillêm)
ʼillêm appears in 6 verses.
- 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?
- Psalms 38:13
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
- Proverbs 31:8
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?