אָלַם

a.lam · be dumb

Hebrew · Strong's H481 · Verb · Sounds like: aw-lam' · 9 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; to tie fast; hence (of the mouth) to be tongue-tied; bind, be dumb, put to silence.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[אָלַם] vb. bind
Niph. (be bound =) be dumb
Pi. Pt. bind

Every occurrence

  1. Genesis 37:7 מְאַלְּמִ֤ים me.'a.le.Mim · An -ing word: strong action

    for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

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