חָלַםchâlam
חָלַם: be healthy, strong
Pronunciation: khaw-lam' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2492
Meanings
Qal: are healthy (Job 39:4)
Hiph`il: and restore me to health, (|| וְהַחֲיֵ֫ינִי) (Isaiah 38:16)
חָלַם: dream
Qal: dream (Genesis 42:9; Daniel 2:1; Genesis 37:9)
Hiph`il: dream (Jeremiah 29:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 29 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 28:12 As he slept, he dreamed of a stairway that reached from the earth up to heaven. And he saw the angels of God going up and down the stairway.
- Genesis 37:5 One night Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him more than ever.
- Genesis 37:6 “Listen to this dream,” he said.
- Genesis 37:9 Soon Joseph had another dream, and again he told his brothers about it. “Listen, I have had another dream,” he said. “The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!”
- Genesis 37:10 This time he told the dream to his father as well as to his brothers, but his father scolded him. “What kind of dream is that?” he asked. “Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow to the ground before you?”
- Genesis 40:5 While they were in prison, Pharaoh’s cup-bearer and baker each had a dream one night, and each dream had its own meaning.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).