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Lexicon :: Strong's H2472 - ḥălôm

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חֲלוֹם
Transliteration
ḥălôm
Pronunciation
khal-ome'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 663a

Strong’s Definitions

חֲלוֹם chălôwm, khal-ome'; or (shortened) חֲלֹם chălôm; from H2492; a dream:—dream(-er).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x

The KJV translates Strong's H2472 in the following manner: dream (64x), dreamer (with H1167) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 65x
The KJV translates Strong's H2472 in the following manner: dream (64x), dreamer (with H1167) (1x).

  1. dream

    1. dream (ordinary)

    2. dream (with prophetic meaning)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חֲלוֹם chălôwm, khal-ome'; or (shortened) חֲלֹם chălôm; from H2492; a dream:—dream(-er).
STRONGS H2472: Abbreviations
† חֲלוֺם noun masculineGenesis 37:10 dream; — ת׳ absolute Genesis 37:5 +, construct Genesis 20:3, חֲלֹם absolute Genesis 20:6, construct Genesis 31:24; suffix חֲלוֺמִי Genesis 40:9, 16, חֲלֹמִי Genesis 41:17, 22, חֲלֹמוֺ Genesis 40:5 + 5 times; plural חֲלֹמוֺת Jeremiah 23:32 + 10 times etc., + 7 times suffix — dream
1. ordinary dream of sleep Job 7:14; Job 20:8; Psalm 73:20; Ecclesiastes 5:2; Ecclesiastes 5:6; Isaiah 29:7.
2. dreams with prophetic meaning, the lowest grade of prophecy (see BrMP 6):
a. dream of Abimelek Genesis 20:3, 6, of Jacob Genesis 31:10, 11, Laban Genesis 31:24, Joseph Genesis 37:5, 6, 8, 9 (twice in verse); Genesis 37:10, 19, 20; Genesis 42:9, Pharaoh and his servants Genesis 40:5 (3 times in verse); Genesis 40:8, 9 (twice in verse); Genesis 40:16; Genesis 41:7, 8, 11 (twice in verse); Genesis 41:12 (twice in verse); Genesis 41:15 (twice in verse); Genesis 41:17, 22, 25, 26, 32; of a lower order of prophets than Moses Numbers 12:6, (all E, not elsewhere in Hexateuch), Job 33:15, of Midianite Judges 7:13 (twice in verse); Judges 7:15, desired by Saul 1 Samuel 28:6, 15; of Solomon 1 Kings 3:5,15; of old men in latter days Joel 3:1, of Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 2:1, 2, 3 (twice in verse); Daniel הֵבִין בְּכָלחָֿזוֺן וַחֲלֹמוֺת Daniel 1:17 had understanding in all visions and dreams.
b. of false prophets Deuteronomy 13:2; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 13:6; Jeremiah 23:27, 28 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 23:32; Jeremiah 27:9; Jeremiah 29:8; Zechariah 10:2.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H2493.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

20:3; 20:3; 20:6; 20:6; 31:10; 31:11; 31:24; 31:24; 37:5; 37:5; 37:6; 37:8; 37:9; 37:10; 37:10; 37:19; 37:20; 40:5; 40:5; 40:8; 40:9; 40:9; 40:16; 40:16; 41:7; 41:8; 41:11; 41:12; 41:15; 41:17; 41:17; 41:22; 41:22; 41:25; 41:26; 41:32; 42:9

Numbers

12:6

Deuteronomy

13:2; 13:4; 13:6

Judges

7:13; 7:15

1 Samuel

28:6; 28:15

Job

7:14; 20:8; 33:15

Psalms

73:20

Ecclesiastes

5:2; 5:6

Song of Songs

1

Isaiah

29:7

Jeremiah

23:27; 23:28; 23:32; 23:32; 27:9; 29:8

Daniel

1:17; 2:1; 2:2; 2:3

Joel

3:1

Zechariah

10:2

H2472

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2472 matches the Hebrew חֲלוֹם (ḥălôm),
which occurs 64 times in 54 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 20:3–Dan 2:1)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:3 - But God came to Abimelech in a dream in the night, and said to him, Truly you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:6 - And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:10 - And at the time when the flock were with young, I saw in a dream that all the he-goats which were joined with the she-goats were banded and marked and coloured.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:11 - And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:24 - Then God came to Laban in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:5 - Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:8 - And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Then he had another dream, and gave his brothers an account of it, saying, I have had another dream: the sun and the moon and eleven stars gave honour to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:19 - Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:20 - Let us now put him to death and put his body into one of these holes, and we will say, An evil beast has put him to death: then we will see what becomes of his dreams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - Then they said to him, We have had a dream, and no one is able to give us the sense. And Joseph said, Does not the sense of dreams come from God? what was your dream?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:9 - Then the chief wine-servant gave Joseph an account of his dream, and said, In my dream I saw a vine before me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 - Now when the chief bread-maker saw that the first dream had a good sense, he said to Joseph, I had a dream; and in my dream there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:7 - And the seven thin heads made a meal of the good heads. And when Pharaoh was awake he saw it was a dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:8 - And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:11 - And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15 - And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:17 - Then Pharaoh said, In my dream I was by the side of the Nile:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:22 - And again in a dream I saw seven heads of grain, full and good, coming up on one stem:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:25 - Then Joseph said, These two dreams have the same sense: God has made clear to Pharaoh what he is about to do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:26 - The seven fat cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are seven years: the two have the same sense.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:32 - And this dream came to Pharaoh twice, because this thing is certain, and God will quickly make it come about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:6 - And he said, Now give ear to my words: if there is a prophet among you I will give him knowledge of myself in a vision and will let my words come to him in a dream.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1 - If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3 - Then give no attention to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God is testing you, to see if all the love of your heart and soul is given to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:6 - And when Saul went for directions to the Lord, the Lord gave him no answer, by a dream or by the Urim or by the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:15 - And Samuel said to Saul, Why have you made me come up, troubling my rest? And Saul in answer said, I am in great danger; for the Philistines are making war on me, and God has gone away from me and will no longer give me any answer, by the prophets or by dreams: so I have sent for you to make clear to me what I am to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:5 - In Gibeon, Solomon had a vision of the Lord in a dream by night; and God said to him, Say what I am to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:15 - And Solomon, awakening, saw that it was a dream; then he came to Jerusalem, where he went before the ark of the agreement of the Lord, offering burned offerings and peace-offerings; and he made a feast for all his servants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:14 - Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 20:8 - He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 33:15 - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:20 - As a dream when one is awake, they are ended; they are like an image gone out of mind when sleep is over.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:3 - As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 5:7 - Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:7 - And all the nations making war on Ariel, and all those who are fighting against her and shutting her in with their towers, will be like a dream, like a vision of the night.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:27 - Whose purpose is to take away the memory of my name from my people by their dreams, of which every man is talking to his neighbour, as their fathers gave up the memory of my name for the Baal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:28 - If a prophet has a dream, let him give out his dream; and he who has my word, let him give out my word in good faith. What has the dry stem to do with the grain? says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:32

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:32 - See, I am against the prophets of false dreams, says the Lord, who give them out and make my people go out of the way by their deceit and their uncontrolled words: but I did not send them or give them orders; and they will be of no profit to this people, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - And you are not to give attention to your prophets or your readers of signs or your dreamers or those who see into the future or those who make use of secret arts, who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8 - For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Do not let yourselves be tricked by the prophets who are among you, and the readers of signs, and give no attention to their dreams which they may have;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 1:17 - Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:1 - In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.

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