# H481 אָלַם

אָלַם (ʼâlam), Strong’s H481: to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied KJV: bind, be dumb, put to silence.. Occurs 9 times.

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*ʼâlam* — to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied

KJV: bind, be dumb, put to silence.

Occurs 9 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [אָלַם] vb. bind
- Niph. (be bound =) be dumb
- Pi. Pt. bind

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 37:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=7) — for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your…
- [Isaiah 53:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/53?v=7) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 3:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/3?v=26) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 24:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/24?v=27) — 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…
- [Ezekiel 33:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/33?v=22) — 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…
- [Psalms 31:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/31?v=19) — Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
- [Psalms 39:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/39?v=3) — I was mute with silence. I held my peace, even from good. My sorrow was stirred.
- [Psalms 39:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/39?v=10) — I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
- [Daniel 10:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/daniel/10?v=15) — When he had spoken these words to me, I set my face toward the ground and was mute.