Be dumb
אָלַםStrong’s H0481alam (a-lam)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Alam is the Hebrew word usually translated “was dumb”, “binding” and “may they be dumb”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And when he had spoken such words unto me, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.”
Meaning
- To bind(Niphal) · (Piel) binding (part.)
How it's translated
- i was dumb 2
- binding 1
- may they be dumb 1
- i am dumb 1
- it is dumb 1
- and you will be dumb 1
- you will be dumb 1
- and i was dumb 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Genesis 1
- Isaiah 1
- Daniel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 37:7For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.
- Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Psalms 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
- Psalms 39:9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
- Isaiah 53:7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
- Ezekiel 3:26And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover: for they are a rebellious house.
Hebrew dictionary
אָלַם alam · be dumb
1) to bind 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be dumb 1a2) to be bound 1b) (Piel) binding (part.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “binding” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BI'NDING, participle present
tense Fastening with a band; confining; restraining; covering or wrapping; obliging by a promise or other moral tie; making costive; contracting; making hard or stiff.
All definitions and other forms of “binding”
BI'NDING, adjective
That obliges; obligatory; as the binding force of a moral duty or of a command.
BI'NDING, noun
The act of fastening with a band or obliging; a bandage; the cover of a book, with the sewing and accompanying work; any thing that binds; something that secures the edge of cloth.
- In the art of defense, a method of securing or crossing the adversary's sword with a pressure, accompanied with a spring of the wrist.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.