# H483 אִלֵּם

אִלֵּם (ʼillêm), Strong’s H483: speechless KJV: dumb (man).. Occurs 6 times.

Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H483 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html

*ʼillêm* — speechless

KJV: dumb (man).

Derived from [אָלַם ʼâlam](https://besorah.bible/word/H481) (to tie fast)

Occurs 6 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אִלֵּם adj. dumb, unable to speak

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 4:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/4?v=11) — The LORD said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, the LORD?
- [Isaiah 35:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/35?v=6) — Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing; for waters will break out in the…
- [Isaiah 56:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/56?v=10) — His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down…
- [Habakkuk 2:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/habakkuk/2?v=18) — “What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies…
- [Psalms 38:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/38?v=14) — But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
- [Proverbs 31:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/proverbs/31?v=8) — Open your mouth for the mute, in the cause of all who are left desolate.