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# חָלַם

Biblical Hebrew

**dream** — used 27 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

dream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dd/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָלַם²: vb. dream [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dd/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. dream (NH id.; Aramaic ܚܠܰܡ; חֲלַם; Ethiopic ሐለመ: Arabic حَلَمَ, dream, experience an emission of the seminal fluid, attain to puberty)— Pf. ח׳ Gn 42:9 Dn 2:1, חָלַמְתִּי Gn 37:9 + 3 times, חָלָ֑מְתִּי Gn 37:6 + 2 times, etc., + 3 times Pf.; Impf. יַחֲלֹם Is 29:8 + 5 times, יַחְלְמוּ Jb 39:4, וַיַּחַלְמוּ Gn 40:5, יַחֲלֹמ֑וּן Jo 3:1, נַחַלְמָה Gn 41:11, Pt. חוֹלֵם Dt 13:4, חֹלֵם Gn 41:1 Dt 13:2, 6, חֹלְמִים ψ 126:1—dream: of ordinary dreams of sleep Is 29:8(×2) ψ 126:1. of dreams with prophetic meaning: of Jacob Gn 28:12, Joseph Gn 37:5, 6, 9(×2), 10; 42:9, of Pharaoh and his servants Gn 40:5, 8; 41:1, 5, 11(×2), 15 (all E, not elsewhere in Hex.); of Midianite Ju 7:13, Nebuchad. Dn 2:1, 3, old men in latter days Jo 3:1. of dreams of false prophets Dt 13:2, 4, 6 Je 23:25(×2). Pt. מַחְלְמִים dream (of false prophets, c. acc. cogn.) Je 29:8 (but read חֹלְמִים \[מ by dittogr. from אַתֶּם\], Hi Gf Gie Gr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I have dreamed (7); he dreamed (5); he dreams (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 37:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.6/#tree)

וַיֹּ֖אמֶר אֲלֵיהֶ֑ם שִׁמְעוּ־נָ֕א הַחֲל֥וֹם הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר חָלָֽמְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to them hear please the dream (the) this which I.have.dreamed

*JPS 1917:* And he said unto them: 'Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

[Psalms 126:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.126.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.126.1/#tree)

שִׁ֗יר הַֽמַּ֫עֲל֥וֹתבְּשׁ֣וּב יְ֭הוָה אֶת־שִׁיבַ֣ת צִיּ֑וֹן הָ֝יִ֗ינוּ כְּחֹלְמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* the.song of the.ascents when restored Yahweh (et) the.restoration of.Zion we.were like \[those.who\].dream

*JPS 1917:* A Song of Ascents. When the LORD brought back those that returned to Zion, we were like unto them that dream.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dd.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dd/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).