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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And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
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And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
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The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.
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And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.
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And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
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And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
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And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
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And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
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In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
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And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
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In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
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As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
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<<A Song of degrees.>> When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
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For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
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And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.
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The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
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The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.
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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