# אִלֵּם (ilem)

Israeli respelling: i-lem. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H483. 6 Old Testament occurrences.

speechless

King James renderings: dumb (man).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ilem-h483

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/4/11) — And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
- [Psalms 38:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/13) — But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
- [Proverbs 31:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/31/8) — Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
- [Isaiah 35:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/35/6) — Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the…
- [Isaiah 56:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/56/10) — His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
- [Habakkuk 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/18) — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work…