אִלֵּםʼillêm/il-lame'/
HebrewH4836 occurrences (KJV)
speechless
KJV renders it: dumb (man).
Where it appears
- Exod 4:11Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
- Ps 38:13But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
- Prov 31:8Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.
- Isa 35:6Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- Isa 56:10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Hab 2:18“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.