Dumb
Bible Usage:
- dumb used 29 times.
- First Reference: Exodus 4:11
- Last Reference: 2 Peter 2:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1748 Used 1 time
- H481 Used 7 times
- H483 Used 5 times
- G216 Used 3 times
- G2974 Used 8 times
- G4623 Used 1 time
- G880 Used 3 times
From natural infirmity (Exodus 4:11); not knowing what to say (Proverbs 31:8); unwillingness to speak (Psalms 39:9; Leviticus 10:3). Christ repeatedly restored the dumb (Matthew 9:32, 33; Luke 11:14; Matthew 12:22) to the use of speech.
Stricken of God
Exodus 4:11; Luke 1:20; Luke 1:64
Miraculous healing of, by Jesus
Matthew 9:32-33; Matthew 12:22; Matthew 15:30-31; Mark 7:37; Mark 9:17; Mark 9:25-26
Deafness
DUMB, adjective Dum.
1. Mute; silent; not speaking.
I was dumb with silence; I held my peace. Psalms 34:1.
2. Destitute of the power of speech; unable to utter articulate sounds; as the dumb brutes. The asylum at Hartford in Connecticut was the first institution in America for teaching the deaf and dumb to read and write.
3. Mute; not using or accompanied with speech; as a dumb show; dumb signs.
To strike dumb is to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.
DUMB, verb transitive To silence.
DUMBLY, adverb dumly. Mutely; silently; without words or speech.
DUMBNESS, noun Dumness.
1. Muteness; silence or holding the peace; omission of speech. This is voluntary dumbness
2. In capacity to speak; inability to articulate sounds. This is involuntary dumbness