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Genesis 40:5
“And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H2492 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, to bind firmly, i.e. (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump; also (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- (cause to) dream(-er), be in good liking, recover.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יַּֽחַלְמוּ֩ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 30 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 28:12Genesis 37:5Genesis 37:6Genesis 37:6Genesis 37:9
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read חָלַם here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.