Be healthy
חָלַםStrong’s H2492chalam (cha-lam)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chalam is the Hebrew word usually translated “have dreamed”, “dreamed” and “we dreamed”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.”
Meaning
- To be healthy, be strong(Qal) to be healthy · (Hiphil) to restore to health
- To dream(Qal) · (Hiphil) to dream
How it's translated
- i have dreamed 7
- and he dreamed 4
- we dreamed 2
- dreaming 2
- dreamer of 2
- he dreams 2
- you have dreamed 1
- and they dreamed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 12
- Deuteronomy 3
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Daniel 2
- Judges 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:3In contextAnd the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
- Genesis 28:12And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
- Genesis 37:5And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
- Genesis 37:6And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
- Genesis 37:9And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.
- Genesis 37:10And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
Hebrew dictionary
חָלַם chalam · be healthy
1) to be healthy, be strong 1a) (Qal) to be healthy 1b) (Hiphil) to restore to health
חָלַם chalam · to dream
1) to dream 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to dream (ordinary) 1a2) to dream (prophetic) 1a3) to dream (of false prophets) 1b) (Hiphil) to dream
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.