Strong's Hebrew · H2472

H2472 chălôwm

חֲלוֹם

khal-ome'

dream

Looking for Greek G2472 isótimos? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H2472. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

chălôwm appears 65 times in Scripture, including Genesis 20:6 and Genesis 31:10. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a dream

In the King James Version

dream(-er).

Derivation

or (shortened) חֲלֹם; from H2492 (חָלַם);

Appears 65 times in Scripture

Genesis 37:8

““Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.”

Genesis 37:6

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

Genesis 31:24

“But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.””

Genesis 37:10

“He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?””

Genesis 31:11

“In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’”

Genesis 31:10

“When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.”

Genesis 37:9

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

Genesis 37:5

“Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.”

Genesis 20:6

“Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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