Strong's Hebrew · H2492
חָלַם
châlam · khaw-lam'
(cause to) dream(-er), be in good liking, recover.
Definition
properly, to bind firmly, i.e. (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump; also (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 29 times in Scripture
“both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.”
“He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:”
“After two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing beside the Nile,”
“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?””
““We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.””
“And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.”
“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.””
“Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.”
“but he fell back asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).