Limitless Word
אָלַםʼâlam/aw-lam'/
HebrewH4819 occurrences (KJV)

to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied

KJV renders it: bind, be dumb, put to silence.

Where it appears

  • Gen 37:7for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”
  • Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
  • Ps 39:2I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
  • Ps 39:9I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
  • Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
  • Ezek 3:26I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, that you will be mute, and will not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
  • Ezek 24:27In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you shall speak, and be no more mute: so you will be a sign to them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Ezek 33:22Now Yahweh’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who was escaped came; and he had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more mute.
  • Dan 10:15and when he had spoken to me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and was mute.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.