Strong's #483: 'illem (pronounced il-lame')

from 481; speechless:--dumb (man).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'illêm

1) mute, silent, dumb, unable to speak

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from H481

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

Exodus 4:11: "or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing,"
Psalms 38:13: "as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth."
Proverbs 31:8: "Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction."
Isaiah 35:6: "man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters"
Isaiah 56:10: "they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot"
Habakkuk 2:18: "trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?"