Word

אֵלֶם

ʼêlem · H482 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. silence

    State of being silent

    Examples

    Psalm 56:1 For the music director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

    Psalm 58:1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, you gods? Do you judge fairly, you sons of mankind?

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Non-Speak002004001009004
אֵלֶם carries the sense of silence, a term appearing in a psalm superscription describing a silent or mute condition.
Word family 11 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H482. elem אֵ֫לֶם noun [masculine] silence, Psa 56:1 (title) see Ol De, in name of melody…
H482. elem
אֵ֫לֶם noun [masculine] silence, Psa 56:1 (title) see Ol De, in name of melody רְחֹקִים אֵלֶם עַליֿוֺנַת; also Psa 58:2 (= adverb in silence ?) but read אֵלִ(י)ם Ol De Che, etc.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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