King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER H2492
Transliteration: chalam
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lam')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be healthy or strong
Meaning: to bind firmly, to be, plump, to dream
Word Summary
chalam: to be healthy or strong
Original Word: חָלַםTransliteration: chalam
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-lam')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be healthy or strong
Meaning: to bind firmly, to be, plump, to dream
Strong's Concordance
cause to dreamer, be in good liking, recover A primitive root; properly, to bind firmly, i.e. (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump; also (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream -- (cause to) dream(-er), be in good liking, recover.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2492. chalam
I. [חָלַם] verb be healthy, strong (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic Ethpe`el be made healthy, strong, Aph`el causative, also derivatives; חֲלַם press firmly together) —
Qal Imperfect בְנֵיהֶם יַחְלְמוּ Job 39:4 their young are healthy.
Hiph`il Imperfect2masculine singular וְתַחֲלִימֵנִי Isaiah 38:16 and restore me to health ("" וְהַחֲיֵ֫ינִי).
II. חָלַם verb dream (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic , חֲלַם; Ethiopic Arabic , dream, experience an emission of the seminal fluid, attain to puberty) —
Qal Perfect ׳ח Genesis 42:9; Daniel 2:1, חָלַמְתִּי Genesis 37:9 3t., חָלָ֑מְתִּי 37:6 2t., etc., + 3 t. Perfect; Imperfect יַחֲלֹם Isaiah 29:8 5t., יַחְלְמוּ Job 39:4, וַיַּחַלְמוּ Genesis 40:5, יַחֲלֹמ֑וּן Joel 3:1, נַחַלְמָה Genesis 41:11; Participle חוֺלֵם Deuteronomy 13:4,חֹלֵם Genesis 41:1; Deuteronomy 13:2; 13:6, חֹלְמִים Psalm 126:1; — dream:
a. of ordinary dreams of sleep Isaiah 29:8 (twice in verse); Psalm 126:1.
b. of dreams with prophetic meaning: of Jacob Genesis 28:12, Joseph 37:5-6, 9 (twice in verse); 37:10; 42:9, of Pharaoh and his servants 40:5, 8; 41:1, 5, 11 (twice in verse); 41:15 (all E, not elsewhere in Hexateuch); of Midianite Judges 7:13, Nebuchad. Daniel 2:1, 3, old men in latter days Joel 3:1.
c. of dreams of false prophets Deuteronomy 13:2; 13:4; 13:6; Jeremiah 23:25 (twice in verse).
Hiph`il Participle, מַחְלְמִים dream (of false prophets, with accusative of congnate meaning with verb) Jeremiah 29:8 (but read חֹלְמִים [מ by dittograph from אַתֶּם], Hi Gf Gie Gr).