Word Summary
enypniazomai: to dream
Original Word: ἐνυπνιάζομαιTransliteration: enypniazomai
Phonetic Spelling: (en-oop-nee-ad'-zom-ahee)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to dream
Meaning: to dream
Strong's Concordance
dreamer.
Middle voice from enupnion; to dream -- dream(-er).
see GREEK enupnion
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1797: ἐνυπνιάζωἐνυπνιάζω (
ἐνύπνιον, which see):
to dream (
Aristotle, h. an. 4, 10, etc.), and deponent
ἐνυπνιάζομαι (
Hippocrates,
Plutarch, Brut c. 24); so always in the Bible, for
חָלַם, with future passive
ἐνυπνιασθήσομαι, and common with aorist passive
ἐνυπνιάσθην, more rarely middle
ἐνυπνιασάμην (
Genesis 37:9;
Judges 7:13);
ἐνύπνια ἐνυπνιάζεσθαι (in the
Sept. for
חְלומות חָלַם),
to dream (divinely suggested)
dreams:
Acts 2:17 from
(Joel 2:28); but the reading ἐνυπνίοις (ἐνυπνιάζεσθαι) was long ago restored, which reading also manuscript Alex. gives in Joel. Metaphorically, to be beguiled with sensual images and carried away to an impious course of conduct: Jude 1:8.