H483 - אִלֵּם (ʼillêm)

H483 אִלֵּם (ʼillêm) il-lame'

Hebrew

Adjective (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

mute

Strong's Definition

speechless

Derivation: from H481 (אָלַם);

KJV Usage: dumb (man).

TWOT Reference: 102c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) mute, silent, dumb, unable to speak

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G216 G1769 G2974 G3424

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

mute, silent, dumb, unable to speak

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

אִלֵּם illêm BDB Definition: 1) mute, silent, dumb, unable to speak Part of Speech: adjective A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H481 Same Word by TWOT Number: 102c Total KJV Occurrences: 6

Bible Occurrences (6)

4:11

38:13

31:8

35:6 56:10

2:18

Exodus 4:11

And the LORD said to him, Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf,... the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Proverbs 31:8

Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed....

Isaiah 35:6

Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 56:10

[Israel’s] watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious...; they are all mute dogs, they cannot... bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.

Habakkuk 2:18

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it — [or] an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation...; he makes idols that cannot speak.