Hebrew adjective · H483
אִלֵּם
illemil-lame'
mute
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼillêm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H483is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H483
speechless
The King James renders it: dumb (man).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
illem is rendered "mute". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 4:11And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
Exodus 4:11אִלֵּ֔ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- dumb3
- a dumb1
- and like a dumb1
- for dumb1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אִלֵּ֔ם1
- אִלֵּ֑ם1
- אִלְּמִ֔ים1
- אִלְּמִֽים׃ ס1
- וּ֝כְאִלֵּ֗ם1
- לְאִלֵּ֑ם1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine plural2HAampa
- adjective · masculine singular2HAamsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HC/R/Aamsa
- preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa
Exodus
one use
And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
- אִלֵּ֔םʾilemadjective · masculine singulartagged: dumb
Psalms
one use
But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.
- וּ֝כְאִלֵּ֗םukheilemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and like a dumb
Proverbs
one use
Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- לְאִלֵּ֑םleilempreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: for dumb
Isaiah
two uses
Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- אִלֵּ֑םʾilemadjective · masculine singulartagged: a dumb
Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
- אִלְּמִ֔יםʾilemimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: dumb
Habakkuk
one use
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- אִלְּמִֽים׃ סʾilemimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: dumb
The letters
Gematria 71· 631 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.