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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
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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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All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

H2492

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - He had H2492 a dream, H2492 and behold, a ladder was set on the earth with its top reaching to heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:5 - Then Joseph [fn]had H2492 a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:6 - He said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have [fn]had; H2492

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:9 - Now he [fn]had H2492 still another dream, and related it to his brothers, and said, “Lo, I have [fn]had H2492 still another dream; and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 37:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:10 - He related it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have [fn]had? H2492 Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jail, both had H2492 a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:8 - Then they said to him, “We have [fn]had H2492 a dream and there is no one to interpret it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, please.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:1 - Now it happened at the end of two full years that Pharaoh had H2492 a dream, H2492 and behold, he was standing by the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:5 - He fell asleep and dreamed H2492 a second time; and behold, seven ears of grain came up on a single stalk, plump and good.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:11 - “We had H2492 a dream [fn]on the same night, [fn]he and I; each of us dreamed H2492 according to the interpretation of his own dream.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 41:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:15 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have had H2492 a dream, but no one can interpret it; and I have heard [fn]it said about you, that [fn]when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:9 - Joseph remembered the dreams which he [fn]had H2492 about them, and said to them, “You are spies; you have come to look at the [fn]undefended parts of our land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:1 - “[fn]If a prophet or a dreamer H2492 of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:3 - you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer H2492 of dreams; for the LORD your God is testing you to find out if you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:5 - “But that prophet or that dreamer H2492 of dreams shall be put to death, because he has [fn]counseled [fn]rebellion against the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of [fn]slavery, to seduce you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:13 - When Gideon came, behold, a man was relating a dream to his friend. And he said, “Behold, I [fn]had H2492 a dream; [fn]a loaf of barley bread was tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it [fn]upside down so that the tent lay flat.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 39:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 39:4 - “Their offspring become H2492 strong, H2492 they grow up in the open field;
They leave and do not return to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 126:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:1 - A Song of Ascents.
When the LORD brought back [fn]the captive ones of Zion,
We were like those who dream. H2492

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 - It will be as when a hungry man dreams H2492—
And behold, he is eating;
But when he awakens, his [fn]hunger is not satisfied,
Or as when a thirsty man dreams H2492—
And behold, he is drinking,
But when he awakens, behold, he is faint
And his [fn]thirst is not quenched.
Thus the multitude of all the nations will be
Who wage war against Mount Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 38:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:16 - “O Lord, by these things men live,
And in all these is the life of my spirit;
[fn]O restore H2492 me to health H2492 and let me live!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:25 - “I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had H2492 a dream, H2492 I had H2492 a dream!’ H2492

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:8 - “For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to [fn]the dreams which [fn]they dream. H2492

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:1 - Now in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar [fn]had H2492 dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep [fn]left him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 2:3 - The king said to them, “I [fn]had H2492 a dream and my spirit [fn]is anxious to [fn]understand the dream.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Joe 2:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:28 - “[fn]It will come about after this
That I will pour out My Spirit on all [fn]mankind;
And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream H2492 dreams,
Your young men will see visions.
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