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title: חָלַם — dream · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָלַם (lemma:חָלַם), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 27 times: dream. BDB 1906: vb. dream. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָלַם

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«חָלַם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **dream** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 27 times · **Key:** lemma:חָלַם · **BDB:** חָלַם²

### Glosses

I.have.dreamed (7); he.dreamed (5); he.dreams (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָלַם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/lemma_3a_5d7_5b8_5dc_5b7_5dd/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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:

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

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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.

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