Mute
אִלֵּםStrong’s H0483illem (il-lem)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Illem is the Hebrew word usually translated “dumb” and “like a dumb”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“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?”
Meaning
- Mute, silent, dumb, unable to speak
How it's translated
- dumb 3
- and like a dumb 1
- for dumb 1
- a dumb 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
- Habakkuk 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 38:13But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
- Proverbs 31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
- Isaiah 35:6Then 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 desert.
- Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Habakkuk 2:18What 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 trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Hebrew dictionary
אִלֵּם illem · mute
mute, silent, dumb, unable to speak
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mute” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MUTE, adjective
[Latin mutus.]
- Silent; not speaking; not uttering words, or not having the power of utterance; dumb. mute may express temporary silence, or permanent inability to speak.
- Uttering no sound; as mute sorrow.
- Silent; not pronounced; as a mute letter.
All definitions and other forms of “mute”
MUTE, noun
In law, a person that stands speechless when he ought to answer or plead.
- In grammar, a letter that represents no sound; a close articulation which intercepts the voice.
- In music, a little utensil of wood or brass, used on a violin to deaden or soften the sounds.
MUTE, verb intransitive
To eject the contents of the bowels, a birds.
MUTE, noun
The dung of fowls.
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.