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Lexicon :: Strong's H2492 - ḥālam

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חָלַם
Transliteration
ḥālam
Pronunciation
khaw-lam'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 662,663

Strong’s Definitions

חָלַם châlam, khaw-lam'; a primitive root; properly, to bind firmly, i.e. (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump; also (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream:—(cause to) dream(-er), be in good liking, recover.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x

The KJV translates Strong's H2492 in the following manner: to dream (29x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 29x
The KJV translates Strong's H2492 in the following manner: to dream (29x).
  1. to dream

    1. (Qal)

      1. to dream (ordinary)

      2. to dream (prophetic)

      3. to dream (of false prophets)

    2. (Hiphil) to dream

  2. to be healthy, be strong

    1. (Qal) to be healthy

    2. (Hiphil) to restore to health

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָלַם châlam, khaw-lam'; a primitive root; properly, to bind firmly, i.e. (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump; also (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream:—(cause to) dream(-er), be in good liking, recover.
STRONGS H2492: Abbreviations
† I. [חָלַם] verb be healthy, strong (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic Mflo Ethp. be made healthy, strong, Aph. causative, also derivatives; חֲלַם press firmly together) —
Qal Imperfect יַחְלְמוּ בְנֵיהֶם Job 39:4 their young are healthy.
Hiph. Imperfect 2nd person masculine singular וְתַחֲלִימֵנִי Isaiah 38:16 and restore me to health (|| וְהַחֲיֵ֫ינִי).

† II. חָלַם verb dream (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic Mflo, חֲלַם; Ethiopic ሐለመ፡ Arabic حَلَمَ, dream, experience an emission of the seminal fluid, attain to puberty) —
Qal Perfect ח׳ Genesis 42:9; Daniel 2:1, חָלַמְתִּי Genesis 37:9 + 3 times, חָלָ֑מְתִּי Genesis 37:6 + 2 times, etc., + 3 times Perfect; Imperfect יַחֲלֹם Isaiah 29:8 + 5 times, יַחְלְמוּ Job 39:4, וַיַּחַלְמוּ Genesis 40:5, יַחֲלֹמ֑וּן Joel 3:1, נַחַלְמָה Genesis 41:11; Participle חוֺלֵם Deuteronomy 13:4,חֹלֵם Genesis 41:1; Deuteronomy 13:2; Deuteronomy 13:6, חֹלְמִים Psalm 126:1; — dream:
a. of ordinary dreams of sleep Isaiah 29:8 (twice in verse); Psalm 126:1.
b. of dreams with prophetic meaning: of Jacob Genesis 28:12, Joseph Genesis 37:5, 6, 9 (twice in verse); Genesis 37:10; Genesis 42:9, of Pharaoh and his servants Genesis 40:5, 8; Genesis 41:1, 5, 11 (twice in verse); Genesis 41:15 (all E, not elsewhere in Hexateuch); of Midianite Judges 7:13, Nebuchad. Daniel 2:1, 3, old men in latter days Joel 3:1.
c. of dreams of false prophets Deuteronomy 13:2; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 13:6; Jeremiah 23:25 (twice in verse).
Hiph. Participle, מַחְלְמִים dream (of false prophets, with accusative of congnate meaning with verb) Jeremiah 29:8 (but read חֹלְמִים [מ by dittograph from אַתֶּם], Hi Gf Gie Gr).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

28:12; 37:5; 37:6; 37:6; 37:9; 37:9; 37:10; 40:5; 40:5; 40:8; 41:1; 41:1; 41:5; 41:11; 41:11; 41:15; 42:9; 42:9

Deuteronomy

13:2; 13:2; 13:4; 13:4; 13:6; 13:6

Judges

7:13

Job

39:4; 39:4

Psalms

126:1; 126:1

Isaiah

29:8; 29:8; 38:16

Jeremiah

23:25; 29:8

Daniel

2:1; 2:1; 2:3

Joel

3:1; 3:1

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2492 matches the Hebrew חָלַם (ḥālam),
which occurs 30 times in 25 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 -

And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground with its top reaching the sky, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:5 -

Then Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:6 -

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 -

Then he had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun, moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 -

He told his father and brothers, and his father rebuked him. “What kind of dream is this that you have had? ” he said. “Am I and your mother and your brothers really going to come and bow down to the ground before you? ”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 -

The king of Egypt’s cupbearer and baker, who were confined in the prison, each had a dream. Both had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 -

“We had dreams,” they said to him, “but there is no one to interpret them.”

Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1 -

At the end of two years Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 -

He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and good, came up on one stalk.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:11 -

“He and I had dreams on the same night; each dream had its own meaning.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15 -

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said about you that you can hear a dream and interpret it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 -

Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said to them, “You are spies. You have come to see the weakness[fn] of the land.”

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1 -

“If a prophet or someone who has dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3 -

“do not listen to that prophet’s words or to that dreamer. For the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 -

“That prophet or dreamer must be put to death, because he has urged rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the place of slavery, to turn you from the way the LORD your God has commanded you to walk. You must purge the evil from you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 -

When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, “Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:4 -

Their offspring are healthy and grow up in the open field.

They leave and do not return.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:1 -

When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion,[fn]

we were like those who dream.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 -

It will be like a hungry one who dreams he is eating,

then wakes and is still hungry;

and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking,

then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water.

So it will be for all the many nations

who go to battle against Mount Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:16 -

Lord, by such things people live,

and in every one of them my spirit finds life;

you have restored me to health

and let me live.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:25 -

“I have heard what the prophets who prophesy a lie in my name have said: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream! ’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8 -

For this is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you, and don’t listen to the dreams you elicit from them,

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:1 -

In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled him, and sleep deserted him.

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:3 -

he said to them, “I have had a dream and am anxious to understand it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:28 -

After this

I will pour out my Spirit on all humanity;

then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

your old men will have dreams,

and your young men will see visions.

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