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# אִלֵּם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H483

**dumb** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dumb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/483/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִלֵּם: adj. dumb [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/483/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. dumb, unable to speak; Ex 4:11 מִי שָׂם פֶּה לָֽאָדָם אוֹ מִי יָשׂוּם אִלֵּם; Is 56:10 כְּלָבִים אִלְּמִים fig. of false proph.; of idols אֱלִילִים א׳ Hb 2:18; as subst. Pr 31:8 ψ 38:14 Is 35:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: dumb (4); a dumb \[person\] (1); of a dumb \[person\] (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 31:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.31.8/#tree)

פְּתַח־פִּ֥יךָ לְאִלֵּ֑ם אֶל־דִּ֝֗ין כָּל־בְּנֵ֥י חֲלֽוֹף׃

*Word for word:* open mouth your for.\[the\] dumb to \[the\].cause of.all \[the\].sons of.passing.away

*JPS 1917:* Open thy mouth for the dumb, in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

[Psalms 38:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.38.14/#tree)

וַאֲנִ֣י כְ֭חֵרֵשׁ לֹ֣א אֶשְׁמָ֑ע וּ֝כְאִלֵּ֗ם לֹ֣א יִפְתַּח־פִּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and I \[am\].like a.deaf.\[person\] not I.hear and like a.dumb.\[person\] \[who\].not he.opens mouth his

*JPS 1917:* But I am as a deaf man, I hear not; and I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/483.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/483/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).