Dream
חֲלוֹםStrong’s H2472chalom (cha-lom)
Appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalom is the Hebrew word usually translated “dream”, “dreams” and “dream his”. It appears in 55 verses of the Old Testament.
“As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.”
Meaning
- Dreamdream (ordinary) · dream (with prophetic meaning)
How it's translated
- a dream 15
- the dream 8
- in a dream 6
- dreams 4
- dream his 4
- in dream my 4
- dreams his 3
- by dreams 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 27
- Jeremiah 5
- Daniel 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Job 3
- Judges 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:1In contextAnd in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
- Daniel 2:2In contextThen the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came and stood before the king.
- Daniel 2:3In contextAnd the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
- Zechariah 10:2In contextFor the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
- Genesis 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.
- Genesis 20:6And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.
All 55 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
חֲלוֹם chalom · dream
1) dream 1a) dream (ordinary) 1b) dream (with prophetic meaning) Aramaic equivalent: che.lem (חֵ֫לֶם "dream" H2493)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dream” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DREAM, noun
[G.]
- The thought or series of thoughts of a person in sleep.
- In scripture, dreams were sometimes impressions on the minds of sleeping persons, made by divine agency. Genesis 20:3Matthew 2:12
- A vain fancy; a wild conceit; an unfounded suspicion.
All definitions and other forms of “dream”
DREAM, verb intransitive
preterit tense dreamed or dreamt. [G.]
- To have ideas or images in the mind, in the state of sleep; with of before a noun; as, to dream of a battle; to dream of an absent friend.
- To think; to imagine; as, he little dreamed of his approaching fate.
- To think idly.
- To be sluggish; to waste time in vain thoughts; as, to dream away life.
DREAM, verb transitive
To see in a dream
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.