alam · be mute; bind

What it means

alam (אָלַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be mute; bind”.

Be mute, fall silent. Also bind sheaves.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To lose one's voice, from pain, astonishment or a command of God.
2. To bind cut stalks into bundles, the sheaves.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• mute ×4
• be mute ×3
• silent ×1
• were binding ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1

• Genesis 37:7

  Look, we were binding sheaves in the middle of the field, and look, my sheaf rose and also stood upright; and look, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down before my sheaf.”

• Psalms 31:18

  Let the lips of lies be mute that speak against the righteous with insolence, with pride and contempt.

• Psalms 39:2

  I became mute in silence; I kept quiet even from good, and my pain was stirred up.

• Psalms 39:9

  I have become mute; I will not open my mouth, for you have done it.

• Isaiah 53:7

  He was mistreated, and he humbled himself, and he did not open his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a ewe that before her shearers is silent, and he did not open his mouth.

• Ezekiel 3:26

  And your tongue I will make cling to the roof of your mouth, and you will be mute, and you will not be to them a man who reproves, for they are a rebellious house.

• Ezekiel 24:27

  On that day your mouth will be opened with the fugitive, and you will speak and will not be mute anymore; and you will be to them a wonder, and they will know that I am YHWH.’”

• Ezekiel 33:22

  And the hand of YHWH had been upon me in the evening before the fugitive came, and he opened my mouth until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no longer mute.

• Daniel 10:15

  And when he spoke with me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground and was mute.