Dream
חֵ֫לֶםStrong’s H2493chelem (che-lem)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chelem is the Aramaic word usually translated “dream the”, “dream” and “dream your”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation.”
Meaning
- Dream
How it's translated
- dream the 15
- a dream 2
- and dream the 2
- dream your 1
- dream my 1
- dreams 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 18
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:5In contextThe king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill.
- Daniel 2:6In contextBut if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 2:7In contextThey answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.
- Daniel 2:9In contextBut if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.
- Daniel 2:26In contextThe king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof?
- Daniel 2:28In contextBut there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
Aramaic dictionary
חֵ֫לֶם chelem · dream
dream Aramaic of cha.lom (חֲלוֹם "dream" H2472)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.