H483Adjective6 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Exodus 4:11אִלֵּם
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?
- Psalm 38:13וּכְאִלֵּם
But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
- Proverbs 31:8לְאִלֵּם
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- Isaiah 35:6אִלֵּם
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.
- Habakkuk 2:18אִלְּמִים ס
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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.