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Job 20:8
“He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
חֲלוֹםchălôwm · khal-ome'
H2472 · Hebrew
H2472 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a dream
- Derivation
- or (shortened) חֲלֹם; from H2492 (חָלַם);
- KJV renderings
- dream(-er).
- Grammar
- כַּ — preposition
- חֲל֣וֹם — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 64 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 20:3Genesis 20:6Genesis 31:10Genesis 31:11Genesis 31:24
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 חֲלוֹם 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.