Lexicon :: Strong's G1798 - enypnion

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

“Are you really going to reign over us? ” his brothers asked him. “Are you really going to rule us? ” So they hated him even more because of his dream and what he had said.

“So now, come on, let’s kill him and throw him into one of the pits.[fn] We can say that a vicious animal ate him. Then we’ll see what becomes of his dreams! ”

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.

“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.”

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was positive, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream. Three baskets of white bread were on my head.

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

The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven plump, full ones. Then Pharaoh woke up, and it was only a dream.

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

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.”

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

“Since the dream was given twice to Pharaoh, it means that the matter has been determined by God, and he will carry it out soon.

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

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

“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.

“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.

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.”

When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to Israel’s camp and said, “Get up, for the LORD has handed the Midianite camp over to you.”

He inquired of the LORD, but the LORD did not answer him in dreams or by the Urim or by the prophets.

“Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up? ” Samuel asked Saul.

“I’m in serious trouble,” replied Saul. “The Philistines are fighting against me and God has turned away from me. He doesn’t answer me anymore, either through the prophets or in dreams. So I’ve called on you to tell me what I should do.”

Then Solomon woke up and realized it had been a dream. He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.

then you frighten me with dreams,

and terrify me with visions,

He will fly away like a dream and never be found;

he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

For God speaks time and again,

but a person may not notice it.

Like one waking from a dream,

Lord, when arising, you will despise their image.

Just as dreams accompany much labor, so also a fool’s voice comes with many words.

For many dreams bring futility; so do many words. Therefore, fear God.

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.

“sitting among the graves,

spending nights in secret places,

eating the meat of pigs,

and putting polluted broth in their bowls.[fn]

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

“Through their dreams that they tell one another, they plan to cause my people to forget my name as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.

“I am against those who prophesy false dreams” ​— ​the LORD’s declaration ​— ​“telling them and leading my people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people” ​— ​this is the LORD’s declaration.

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,

God gave these four young men knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. Daniel also understood visions and dreams of every kind.

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

“If you don’t tell me the dream, there is one decree for you. You have conspired to tell me something false or fraudulent until the situation changes. So tell me the dream and I will know you can give me its interpretation.”

The king said in reply to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me the dream I had and its interpretation? ”