chalam · dream

What it means

chalam (חָלַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dream”.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To see images and scenes while asleep.
2. To gain strength, recover.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• dreamed ×12
• I have dreamed ×6
• dream ×4
• dreamer ×3
• dreams ×2
• grow strong ×1
• was dreaming ×1
• you will restore me ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×15
• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Daniel×2
• Joel×1

• Genesis 28:12

  He dreamed, and look, a ladder set on the earth, and its top reaching to the heavens; and look, the angels of Elohim were going up and coming down on it.

• Genesis 37:5

  Joseph dreamed a dream and told it to his brothers, and they hated him even more.

• Genesis 37:6

  He said to them, “Listen, please, to this dream that I have dreamed:

• Genesis 37:9

  He dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream: look, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down before me.”

• Genesis 37:10

  He told it to his father and to his brothers, and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall we indeed come, I and your mother and your brothers, to bow down before you to the ground?”

• Genesis 40:5

  And the two of them dreamed a dream, each his own dream, in one night, each according to the interpretation of his dream: the cupbearer and the baker who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison.

• Genesis 40:8

  They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter for it.” Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to Elohim? Please tell them to me.”

• Genesis 41:1

  At the end of two full years, Pharaoh was dreaming, and look, he was standing by the Nile.

• Genesis 41:5

  He fell asleep and dreamed a second time, and look, seven ears of grain were coming up on one stalk, plump and good.

• Genesis 41:11

  We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; each according to the interpretation of his dream we dreamed.

• Genesis 41:15

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it; but I have heard it said about you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

• Genesis 42:9

  Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamed about them, and he said to them, “You are spies; to see the nakedness of the land you have come.”

• Deuteronomy 13:1

  If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

• Deuteronomy 13:3

  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams, for YHWH your Elohim is testing you to know whether you love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Deuteronomy 13:5

  But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken turning aside against YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slaves, to drag you away from the way in which YHWH your Elohim commanded you to walk. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Judges 7:13

  Gideon came, and there was a man recounting a dream to his companion. He said, “Look, I dreamed a dream: there was a round loaf of barley tumbling into the camp of Midian; it came to the tent and struck it, and it fell; it turned it upside down, and the tent fell flat.”

• Job 39:4

  Their young ones grow strong, they grow up in the open; they go out and do not return to them.

• Psalms 126:1

  A song of the ascents. When YHWH brought back the captives of Zion, we were like those who dream.

• Isaiah 29:8

  And it will be as when the hungry man dreams, and look, he is eating, and he awakes, and his soul is empty; and as when the thirsty man dreams, and look, he is drinking, and he awakes, and look, he is faint, and his soul longs; so will be the multitude of all the nations that wage war against Mount Zion.

• Isaiah 38:16

  Adonai, by these things they live, and in all of them is the life of my spirit; and you will restore me and make me live.

• Jeremiah 23:25

  I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsehood in my name, saying, ‘I have dreamed, I have dreamed!’

• Jeremiah 29:8

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Do not let your prophets deceive you, who are among you, and your diviners, and do not listen to your dreams that you cause them to dream.

• Daniel 2:1

  And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him.

• Daniel 2:3

  And the king said to them, “A dream I have dreamed, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.”

• Joel 2:28

  And it will happen afterward that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.

And 5 more times.