'Dumb' in the Bible
And Jehovah said to him, Who gave man a mouth? or who maketh dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? have not I, Jehovah?
Let the lying lips become dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.
But I, as a deaf man, hear not; and am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; for thou hast done it.
Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all those that are left desolate.
then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and torrents in the desert.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, but he opened not his mouth; he was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and was as a sheep dumb before her shearers, and he opened not his mouth.
His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:
And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth, that thou shalt be dumb, and shalt not be to them a reprover; for they are a rebellious house.
In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him that is escaped, and thou shalt speak, and be no more dumb. So shalt thou be a sign unto them; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.
Now the hand of Jehovah had been upon me in the evening, before he that had escaped came; and he had opened my mouth against his coming to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
And as he was speaking with me according to these words, I set my face toward the ground, and I became dumb.
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall it teach? Behold it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
But as these were going out, behold, they brought to him a dumb man possessed by a demon.
And the demon having been cast out, the dumb spake. And the crowds were astonished, saying, It has never been seen thus in Israel.
Then was brought to him one possessed by a demon, blind and dumb, and he healed him, so that the dumb man spake and saw.
and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:
so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.
And one out of the crowd answered him, Teacher, I brought to thee my son, who has a dumb spirit;
But Jesus, seeing that the crowd was running up together, rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I command thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
But when he came out he could not speak to them, and they recognised that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he was making signs to them, and continued dumb.
And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb; and it came to pass, the demon being gone out, the dumb man spoke. And the crowds wondered.
And the passage of the scripture which he read was this: He was led as a sheep to slaughter, and as a lamb is dumb in presence of him that shears him, thus he opens not his mouth.
Ye know that when ye were of the nations ye were led away to dumb idols, in whatever way ye might be led.
but had reproof of his own wickedness the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.
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- Dense (17 instances)
- Dim (26 instances)
- Dull (29 instances)
- Dumb (38 instances)
- Mute (29 instances)
- Silent (144 instances)
- Slow (47 instances)
- Speechless (21 instances)