Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
dream
Usage: ἐνύπνιον, -ου, τό (ὕπνος), [in LXX chiefly for חֲלוֹם ;] a dream: pl., Act.2:17.† (AS)
Enypnion means “dream” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1798 — dekar (“ram”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1798 ἐνύπνιον (enupnion) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. enupnion (en-oop'-nee-on) n. 1. something seen in sleep, i.e. a dream (vision in a dream) [from G1722 and G5258] It has 72 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include see. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
enupnion (en-oop'-nee-on) n. 1. something seen in sleep, i.e. a dream (vision in a dream) [from G1722 and G5258] KJV: dream Root(s): G1722, G5258
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dream
Usage: ἐνύπνιον, -ου, τό (ὕπνος), [in LXX chiefly for חֲלוֹם ;] a dream: pl., Act.2:17.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render enupnion, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1798 (ἐνύπνιον) appears 82 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
65 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and reported it to his brethren.
And he said to them, Hear this dream which I have dreamed.
And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us, or shalt thou indeed be lord over us? And they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, And the care thereof driveth away sleep.
Watching care will not let a man slumber, As a sore disease breaketh sleep.
The rich hath great labor in gathering riches together; And when he resteth, he is filled with his delicacies.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts, And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts And through visions in their dreams.
First 72 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1798.
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and reported it to his brethren.
And he said to them, Hear this dream which I have dreamed.
And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us, or shalt thou indeed be lord over us? And they hated him still more for his dreams and for his words.
And he dreamed another dream, and related it to his father, and to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed another dream: as it were the sun, and the moon, and the eleven stars did me reverence.
And his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream which thou hast dreamed? shall indeed both I and thy mother and thy brethren come and bow before thee to the earth?
Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.
And they both had a dream in one night; and the vision of the dream of the chief cupbearer and chief baker, who belonged to the king of Egypt, who were in the prison, was this.
And they said to him, We have seen a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said to them, Is not the interpretation of them through God? tell them then to me.
And the chief cupbearer related his dream to Joseph, and said, In my dream a vine was before me.
And the chief baker saw that he interpreted aright; and he said to Joseph, I also saw a dream, and methought I took up on my head three baskets of mealy food.
And it came to pass after two full years that Pharaoh had a dream. He thought he stood upon the bank of the river.
And the seven thin ears and blasted with the wind devoured the seven choice and full ears; and Pharaoh awoke, and it was a dream.
And it was morning, and his soul was troubled; and he sent and called all the interpreters of Egypt, and all her wise men; and Pharaoh related to them his dream, and there was no one to interpret it to Pharaoh.
And we had a dream both in one night, I and he; we saw, each according to his dream.
And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have seen a vision, and there is no one to interpret it; but I have heard say concerning thee that thou didst hear dreams and interpret them.
And Joseph said to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one; whatever God does, he has shown to Pharaoh.
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream of Pharaoh is one.
And concerning the repetition of the dream to Pharaoh twice, it is because the saying which is from God shall be true, and God will hasten to accomplish it.
And Joseph remembered his dream, which he saw; and he said to them, Ye are spies; to observe the marks of the land are ye come.
And if there arise within thee a prophet, or one who dreams a dream, and he gives thee a sign or a wonder,
ye shall not hearken to the words of that prophet, or the dreamer of that dream, because the Lord thy God tries you, to know whether ye love your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
And that prophet or that dreamer of a dream, shall die; for he has spoken to make thee err from the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, who redeemed thee from bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in: so shalt thou abolish the evil from among you.
And Gideon came, and behold a man was relating to his neighbor a dream, and he said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread rolling into the camp of Midian, and it came as far as a tent, and smote it, and it fell, and it turned it up, and the tent fell.
And it came to pass when Gideon heard the account of the dream and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped the Lord, and returned to the camp of Israel, and said, Rise, for the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into our hand.
And Saul inquired of the Lord; and the Lord answered him not by dreams, nor by manifestations, nor by prophets.
And Samuel said, Why hast thou troubled me, that I should come up? And Saul said, I am greatly distressed, and the Philistines war against me, and God has departed from me, and no longer hearkens to me either by the hand of prophets or by dreams: and now I have called thee to tell me what I shall do.
And Solomon awoke, and, behold, it was a dream: and he arose and came to Jerusalem, and stood before the altar that was in front of the ark of the covenant of the Lord in Zion: and he offered whole burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings, and made a great banquet for himself and all his servants.
Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.
Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; And he has fled like a vision of the night.
For when the Lord speaks once, Or a second time,
As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in thy city thou wilt despise their image.
For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; And a fool’s voice is with a multitude of words.
For there is evil in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: But fear thou God.
And as men drink and eat in sleep, and when they have arisen, the dream is vain: and as a thirsty man dreams as if he drank, and having arisen is still thirsty, and his soul has desired in vain: so shall be the wealth of all the nations, as many as have fought against the Mount Zion.
They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, even they that eat swine’s flesh, and the broth of their sacrifices: all their vessels are defiled:
I have heard what the prophets say, what they prophesy in my name, saying falsely, I have seen a night vision.
who devise that men may forget my law by their dreams, which they have told every one to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name in the worship of Baal.
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream; and he in whom is my word spoken to him, let him tell my word truly: what is the chaff to the corn? so are my words, saith the Lord.
Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets that prophesy false dreams, and have not told them truly, and have caused my people to err by their lies, and by their errors; yet I sent them not, and commanded them not; therefore, they shall not profit this people at all.
For thus saith the Lord; Let not the false prophets that are among you persuade you, and let not your diviners persuade you, and hearken not to your dreams which ye dream.
And as for these four children, God gave them understanding and prudence in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
In the second year of his reign Nebuchadnezzar dreamed a dream, and his spirit was amazed, and his sleep departed from him.
And the king gave orders to call the enchanters, and the magicians, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, to declare to the king his dreams. And they came and stood before the king.
And the king said to them, I have dreamed, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
And the Chaldeans spoke to the king in the Syrian language, saying, O king, live forever: do thou tell the dream to thy servants, and we will declare the interpretation.
The king answered the Chaldeans, The thing has departed from me: if ye do not make known to me the dream and the interpretation, ye shall be destroyed, and your houses shall be spoiled.
But if ye make known to me the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and presents and much honor: only tell me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
They answered the second time, and said, Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.
If then ye do not tell me the dream, I know that ye have concerted to utter before me a false and corrupt tale, until the time shall have past: tell me my dream, and I shall know that ye will also declare to me the interpretation thereof.
And the king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Canst thou declare to me the dream which I saw, and the interpretation thereof?
But there is a God in heaven revealing mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what things must come to pass in the last days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are as follows,
This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.
Whereas thou sawest that a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands, and it beat to pieces the earthenware, the iron, the brass, the silver, the gold; the great God has made known to the king what must happen hereafter: and the dream is true, and the interpretation thereof sure.
I saw a vision, and it terrified me, and I was troubled on my bed, and the visions of my head troubled me.
And I made a decree to bring in before me all the wise men of Babylon, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.
So the enchanters, magicians, soothsayers, and Chaldeans came in: and I told the dream before them; but they did not make known to me the interpretation thereof;
until Daniel came, whose name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my God, who has within him the Holy Spirit of God; to whom I said,
O Belteshazzar, chief of the enchanters, of whom I know that the Holy Spirit of God is in thee, and no mystery is too hard for thee, hear the vision of my dream which I had, and tell me the interpretation of it.
This is the vision which I King Nebuchadnezzar saw: and do thou, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, for none of the wise men of my kingdom are able to show me the interpretation of it: but thou, Daniel, art able; for the Holy Spirit of God is in thee.
Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, was amazed about one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. And Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, let the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation of it to thine enemies.
For there is an excellent spirit in him, and sense and understanding are in him, interpreting dreams as he does, and answering hard questions, and solving difficulties: it is Daniel, and the king gave him the name of Belteshazzar: now then let him be called, and he shall tell thee the interpretation of the writing.
In the first year of Belteshazzar king of the Chaldeans Daniel had a dream, and visions of his head upon his bed: and he wrote his dream.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.
And the seers of night visions shall be ashamed, and the prophets shall be laughed to scorn: and all the people shall speak against them, because there shall be none to hearken to them.
For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, And the care thereof driveth away sleep.
Watching care will not let a man slumber, As a sore disease breaketh sleep.
The rich hath great labor in gathering riches together; And when he resteth, he is filled with his delicacies.
He that loveth gold shall not be justified, And he that followeth corruption shall have enough thereof.
It is a stumbling block unto them that sacrifice unto it, And every fool shall be taken therewith.
And they shall become godless by reason of the folly of their hearts, And their eyes shall be blinded through the fear of their hearts And through visions in their dreams.
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Enypnion (Strong's G1798) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dream". enupnion (en-oop'-nee-on) n. 1. something seen in sleep, i.e. a dream (vision in a dream) [from G1722 and G5258]
This page currently indexes 72 linked usages for Strong's G1798 across 17 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1798 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as see. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 65 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G1798, with linked reader references where each row is available.