Genesis 20:3
But 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.
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Dream
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Acts 2:17
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
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חֲלוֹם
chălôwm · khal-ome'
44 times translated as this KJV form64 total Strong's occurrences
a dream
Strong's KJV usage: dream(-er).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 20:3Strong's last: Daniel 2:3
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chêlem · khay'-lem
21 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
a dream
Strong's KJV usage: dream.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 2:4Strong's last: Daniel 7:1
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ónar · on'-ar
6 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
a dream
Strong's KJV usage: :--dream.
Strong's first: Matthew 1:20Strong's last: Matthew 27:19
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châlam · khaw-lam'
2 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to bind firmly, i.e. (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump; also (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) dream(-er), be in good liking, recover.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 126:1Strong's last: Joel 2:28
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enypniázomai · en-oop-nee-ad'-zom-ahee
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
to dream
Strong's KJV usage: :--dream(-er).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 2:17Strong's last: Acts 2:17
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H2472
And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
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And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
H2493
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.
H2493
The 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.
H2493
But 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.
H2493
But 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.
H2493
They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.
H2493
But 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.
H2493
But 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.
H2493
The 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?
H2493
But 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;
H2493
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
H2493
Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.
H2493
I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.
H2493
Therefore made I a decree to bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known unto me the interpretation of the dream.
H2493
Then came in the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known unto me the interpretation thereof.
H2493
But at the last Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying,
H2493
O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.
H2493
This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen. Now thou, O Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation thereof, forasmuch as all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known unto me the interpretation: but thou art able; for the spirit of the holy gods is in thee.
H2493
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
H2493
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
H2493
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
H2493
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
English meaning and historical usage.
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dream
DREAM, noun [G.]
1. The thought or series of thoughts of a person in sleep. We apply dream in the singular, to a series of thoughts, which occupy the mind of a sleeping person, in which he imagines he has a view of real things or transactions. A dream is a series of thoughts not under the command of reason, and hence wild and irregular.
2. In scripture, dreams were sometimes impressions on the minds of sleeping persons, made by divine agency. God came to Abimelech in a dream Joseph was warned by God in a dream Genesis 20:3. Matthew 2:12.
3. A vain fancy; a wild conceit; an unfounded suspicion.
DREAM, verb intransitive preterit tense dreamed or dreamt. [G.]
1. 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.
2. To think; to imagine; as, he little dreamed of his approaching fate.
3. To think idly.
They dream on in a course of reading, without digesting.
4. To be sluggish; to waste time in vain thoughts; as, to dream away life.
DREAM, verb transitive To see in a dream
And dreamt the future fight.
It is followed by a noun of the like signification; as, to dream a dream
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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