{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H481",
  "lemma": "אָלַם",
  "transliteration": "ʼâlam",
  "definition": "to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied",
  "kjv": "bind, be dumb, put to silence.",
  "occurrences": 9,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[אָלַם] vb. bind",
    "Niph. (be bound =) be dumb",
    "Pi. Pt. bind"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 37:7",
      "text": "for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 53:7",
      "text": "He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/53?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezekiel 3:26",
      "text": "I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and will not be able to correct them…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/3?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezekiel 24:27",
      "text": "In that day your mouth will be opened to him who has escaped, and you will speak and be no more mute. So you will be a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/24?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezekiel 33:22",
      "text": "Now the LORD’s hand had been on me in the evening, before he who had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth until he…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/33?v=22"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 31:19",
      "text": "Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/31?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 39:3",
      "text": "I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/39?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 39:10",
      "text": "I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/39?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Daniel 10:15",
      "text": "When he had spoken these words to me, I set my face toward the ground and was mute.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/10?v=15"
    }
  ],
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