Occurrences
ʼillêm occurs 6 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Psalms (1), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (2), Habakkuk (1)
- Exodus 4:11 — And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb (אִלֵּ֔ם), or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
- Psalms 38:13 — But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man (וּ֝כְאִלֵּ֗ם) that openeth not his mouth.
- Proverbs 31:8 — Open thy mouth for the dumb (לְאִלֵּ֑ם) in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
- Isaiah 35:6 — Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb (אִלֵּ֑ם) sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 56:10 — His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb (אִלְּמִ֔ים) dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Habakkuk 2:18 — What 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 (אִלְּמִֽים) idols?