אִלֵּם
ilem · mute
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H483 · appears 6 times in the Bible
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ilem (אִלֵּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “mute”.
How to say it
i·lem
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
- Unable to speak.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 4:11
YHWH said to him, “Who gave a mouth to a human being? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, YHWH?
- Psalms 38:13
But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
- Proverbs 31:8
Open your mouth for the mute, for the cause of all the sons of desolation.
- Isaiah 35:6
Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will shout for joy; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and torrents in the Arabah.
- Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, all of them; they do not know; all of them are mute dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, lovers of slumber.
- Habakkuk 2:18
What does a carved image profit when its maker has carved it, a cast image and a teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols?