Strong's #481: 'alam (pronounced aw-lam')

a primitive root; to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied:--bind, be dumb, put to silence.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

'âlam

1) to bind

1a) (Niphal)

1a1) to be dumb

1a2) to be bound

1b) (Piel) binding (participle)

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Genesis 37:7: "For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf"
Psalms 31:18: "Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against"
Psalms 39:2: " I was dumb with silence, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred."
Psalms 39:9: " I was dumb, I opened my mouth; because thou didst"
Isaiah 53:7: "and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."
Ezekiel 3:26: "cleave the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover:"
Ezekiel 24:27: "to him which is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb: and thou shalt be a sign"
Ezekiel 33:22: "me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb."
Daniel 10:15: "me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb."