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‘Dream’ in the Bible – All 79 Bible verses / Bible passages

Here you will find all biblical passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Dream’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to find all the verses and occurrences of the Word. his article is part of our small concordance.

The term ‘Dream’ occurs 79 times in the Bible. Below you will find all matching biblical passages divided according to the corresponding book.

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Genesis

Genesis 20:3 Then God came to Abimelech through a dream in the night, and he said to him: “Lo, you shall die because of the woman that you have taken. For she has a husband.”Genesis 20:3

Genesis 31:24 And he saw in a dream, God saying to him, “Beware that you not speak anything harsh against Jacob.”Genesis 31:24

Genesis 37:5 Then it also happened that he recounted the vision of a dream to his brothers, for which reason a greater hatred began to be nurtured.Genesis 37:5

Genesis 37:6 And he said to them, “Listen to my dream that I saw.Genesis 37:6

Genesis 37:8 His brothers responded: “Would you be our king? Or will we be subject to your dominion?” Therefore, this matter of his dreams and words provided kindling to their envy and hatred.Genesis 37:8

Genesis 37:9 Likewise, he saw another dream, which he explained to his brothers, saying, “I saw by a dream, as if the sun, and the moon, and eleven stars were reverencing me.”Genesis 37:9

Genesis 37:10 And when he had related this to his father and brothers, his father rebuked him, and he said: “What does it mean to you, this dream that you have seen? Should I, and your mother, and your brothers reverence you upon the earth?”Genesis 37:10

Genesis 37:20 Come, let us kill him and cast him into the old cistern. And let us say: ‘an evil wild beast has devoured him.’ And then it will become apparent what his dreams will do for him.”Genesis 37:20

Genesis 40:5 And they both saw a similar dream on one night, whose interpretations should be related to one another.Genesis 40:5

Genesis 40:8 They responded, “We have seen a dream, and there is no one to interpret it for us.” And Joseph said to them, “Doesn’t interpretation belong to God? Recount for me what you have seen.”Genesis 40:8

Genesis 40:9 The chief cupbearer explained his dream first. “I saw before me a vine,Genesis 40:9

Genesis 40:12 Joseph responded: “This is the interpretation of the dream. The three shoots are the next three days,Genesis 40:12

Genesis 40:16 The chief miller of grain, seeing that he had wisely unraveled the dream, said: “I also saw a dream: that I had three baskets of meal above my head,Genesis 40:16

Genesis 40:18 Joseph responded: “This is the interpretation of the dream. The three baskets are the next three days,Genesis 40:18

Genesis 40:22 the other he hanged on a gallows, and thus the truth of the interpreter of dreams was proven.Genesis 40:22

Genesis 40:23 And although he advanced with so much prosperity, the chief cupbearer forgot his interpreter of dreams.Genesis 40:23

Genesis 41:1 After two years, Pharaoh saw a dream. He thought himself to be standing above a river,Genesis 41:1

Genesis 41:5 slept again, and he saw another dream. Seven ears of grain sprung up on one stalk, full and well-formed.Genesis 41:5

Genesis 41:8 and when morning arrived, being terrified with fear, sent to all the interpreters of Egypt and to all of the wise men. And when they were summoned, he explained to them his dream; but there was no one who could interpret it.Genesis 41:8

Genesis 41:11 There, in one night, both of us saw a dream presaging the future.Genesis 41:11

Genesis 41:12 In that place, there was a Hebrew, a servant of the same commander of the military, to whom we explained our dreams.Genesis 41:12

Genesis 41:15 And he said to him, “I have seen dreams, and there is no one who can unfold them. I have heard that you are very wise at interpreting these.”Genesis 41:15

Genesis 41:22 I saw a dream. Seven ears of grain sprang up on one stalk, full and very beautiful.Genesis 41:22

Genesis 41:24 And they devoured the beauty of the first. I explained this dream to the interpreters, and there is no one who can unfold it.”Genesis 41:24

Genesis 41:25 Joseph responded: “The dream of the king is one. What God will do, he has revealed to Pharaoh.Genesis 41:25

Genesis 41:26 The seven beautiful cows, and the seven full ears of grain, are seven years of abundance. And so the force of the dreams is understood to be the same.Genesis 41:26

Genesis 41:32 Now, as to what you saw the second time, it is a dream pertaining to the same thing. It is an indication of its firmness, because the word of God shall be done, and it shall be completed swiftly.Genesis 41:32

Genesis 42:9 And remembering the dreams, which he had seen in another time, he said to them: “You are scouts. You have come in order to see which parts of the land are weaker.”Genesis 42:9

Number of the word / term Dream in Genesis: 28

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Leviticus

Leviticus 19:26 You shall not eat with blood. You shall not practice divination, nor the observation of dreams.Leviticus 19:26

Number of the word / term Dream in Leviticus: 1

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Numbers

Numbers 12:6 he said to them: “Listen to my words. If there will be among you a prophet of the Lord, I will appear to him in a vision, or I will speak to him through a dream.Numbers 12:6

Number of the word / term Dream in Numbers: 1

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy 13:1 “If there will have arisen in your midst a prophet, or someone who claims that he had seen a dream, and if he will have predicted sign and portent,Deuteronomy 13:1

Deuteronomy 13:5 But that prophet or forger of dreams shall be put to death. For he has spoken so as to turn you away from the Lord your God, who led you away from the land of Egypt and who redeemed you from the house of servitude, and so as to cause you to wander from the way that the Lord your God has entrusted to you. And so shall you remove the evil from your midst.Deuteronomy 13:5

Deuteronomy 18:10 Do not let there be found among you one who would purify his son or daughter by leading them through fire, nor one who consults seers, nor one who observes dreams or omens. Do not let there be found among you one who practices the occult,Deuteronomy 18:10

Deuteronomy 23:10 If there is a man among you who has been defiled by a dream in the night, he shall depart from the camp.Deuteronomy 23:10

Number of the word / term Dream in Deuteronomy: 4

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Judges

Judges 7:13 And when Gideon had arrived, someone told his neighbor a dream. And he related what he had seen, in this way: “I saw a dream, and it seemed to me as if bread, baked under ashes from rolled barley, descended into the camp of Midian. And whenever it arrived at a tent, it struck it, and overturned it, and utterly leveled it to the ground.”Judges 7:13

Judges 7:15 And when Gideon had heard the dream and its interpretation, he worshipped. And he returned to the camp of Israel, and he said: “Rise up! For the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into our hands.”Judges 7:15

Number of the word / term Dream in Judges: 2

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book 1 Samuel

1 Samuel 28:6 And he consulted the Lord. But he did not respond to him, neither by dreams, nor by priests, nor by prophets.1 Samuel 28:6

1 Samuel 28:15 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disquieted me, so that I would be raised up?” And Saul said: “I am greatly distressed. For the Philistines fight against me, and God has withdrawn from me, and he is not willing to heed me, neither by the hand of prophets, nor by dreams. Therefore, I have summoned you, so that you would reveal to me what I should do.”1 Samuel 28:15

Number of the word / term Dream in 1 Samuel: 2

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book 1 Kings

1 Kings 3:5 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon, through a dream in the night, saying, “Request whatever you wish, so that I may give it to you.”1 Kings 3:5

1 Kings 3:15 Then Solomon awakened, and he understood that it was a dream. And when he had arrived in Jerusalem, he stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and he offered holocausts and made victims of peace offerings, and he held a great feast for all his servants.1 Kings 3:15

Number of the word / term Dream in 1 Kings: 2

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book 2 Chronicles

2 Chronicles 33:6 And he caused his sons to pass through fire in the Valley of the son of Hinnom. He observed dreams, followed divinations, served the occult arts, had with him magicians and enchanters, and worked many evils before the Lord, so that he provoked him.2 Chronicles 33:6

Number of the word / term Dream in 2 Chronicles: 1

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Esther

Esther 10:3 and how Mordecai of Jewish birth, was second after king Artaxerxes, and great among the Jews, and acceptable to the people of his brethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking about things which pertained to peace for their descendents. And Mordecai said, “By God have these things been done. I remember a dream that I saw, which signified these same things, and nothing of this whatsoever has failed to occur. The little fountain which grew into a river, and had turned into light and into the sun, and overflowed into many waters, is Esther, whom the king received as wife and whom he preferred to be queen. But the two dragons are I and Haman. The peoples who gathered together are those who had attempted to erase the name of the Jews. And my people is Israel, who cried out to the Lord, and the Lord brought salvation to his people, and he freed us from all evils, and he created great signs and portents among the nations. And he commanded there to be two lots, one for the people of God and the other for all the nations. And both lots arrived at the day appointed before God, even from that past time, for all peoples. And the Lord remembered his people and had mercy on his inheritance. And these days shall be observed in the month of Adar, on the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with all zealousness and joy, by the people gathered together into one union, throughout all the generations hereafter of the people of Israel.” In the fourth year of the reigns of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who was himself a priest and born of the Levites, and Ptolemy his son, brought this epistle of Purim, which they said was a translation by Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy in Jerusalem.Esther 10:3

Number of the word / term Dream in Esther: 1

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Job

Job 7:14 then you will frighten me with dreams, and strike dread through visions,Job 7:14

Job 20:8 Like a dream that flies away, he will not be found; he will pass away like a nightmare.Job 20:8

Job 33:15 Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,Job 33:15

Number of the word / term Dream in Job: 3

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Psalm

Psalm 73:20 As a dream is to those who awaken, O Lord, so will you reduce their image to nothing in your city.Psalm 73:20

Number of the word / term Dream in Psalm: 1

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Proverbs

Proverbs 23:7 For, like a seer and an interpreter of dreams, he presumes what he does not know. “Eat and drink,” he will say to you; and his mind is not with you.Proverbs 23:7

Number of the word / term Dream in Proverbs: 1

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Ecclesiastes

Ecclesiastes 5:7 Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities and innumerable words. Yet truly, you must fear God.Ecclesiastes 5:7

Number of the word / term Dream in Ecclesiastes: 1

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Isaiah

Isaiah 29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that have struggled against Ariel will be like the dream of a vision by night, along with all who have battled, and besieged, and prevailed against it.Isaiah 29:7

Isaiah 29:8 And it will be like one who is hungry and dreams of eating, but, when he has been awakened, his soul is empty. And it will be like one who is thirsty and dreams of drinking, but, after he has been awakened, he still languishes in thirst, and his soul is empty. So shall the multitude of all the nations be, who have struggled against Mount Zion.Isaiah 29:8

Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are all blind. They are all ignorant. They are mute dogs without the ability to bark, seeing empty things, sleeping and loving dreams.Isaiah 56:10

Number of the word / term Dream in Isaiah: 3

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Jeremiah

Jeremiah 23:27 They want to cause my people to forget my name, by means of their dreams, which each of them describes to his neighbor, just as their fathers forgot my name for the sake of Baal.Jeremiah 23:27

Jeremiah 23:28 The prophet who has had a dream, let him describe the dream. And he who receives my word, let him speak my word in truth. For what has the chaff to do with the wheat, says the Lord?Jeremiah 23:28

Jeremiah 23:32 Behold, I am against the prophets, who dream what is false, says the Lord; who explain and so seduce my people with their falsehoods and with their miracles, though I did not send them, nor did I command them. They have offer nothing beneficial to this people, says the Lord.Jeremiah 23:32

Jeremiah 29:8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not allow your prophets and your diviners, who are in your midst, to seduce you. And you should pay no attention to your dreams, which you are dreaming.Jeremiah 29:8

Number of the word / term Dream in Jeremiah: 4

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Daniel

Daniel 1:17 Yet, to these children, God gave knowledge and instruction in every book, and wisdom, but to Daniel, also the understanding of all visions and dreams.Daniel 1:17

Daniel 2:1 In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar saw a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream fled from him.Daniel 2:1

Daniel 2:2 Yet the king commanded that the seers, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be gathered together to reveal to the king his dreams. When they arrived, they stood in front of the king.Daniel 2:2

Daniel 2:3 And the king said to them, “I saw a dream, and, being confused in mind, I do not know what I saw.”Daniel 2:3

Daniel 2:4 And the Chaldeans answered the king in Syriac, “O king, live forever. Tell the dream to your servants, and we will reveal its interpretation.”Daniel 2:4

Daniel 2:5 And in answer, the king said to the Chaldeans, “The memory of it has slipped away from me. Unless you reveal the dream to me, and its meaning, you will be put to death, and your houses will be confiscated.Daniel 2:5

Daniel 2:6 But if you explain the dream and its meaning, you will receive from me rewards, and gifts, and great honor. Therefore, reveal to me the dream and its interpretation.”Daniel 2:6

Daniel 2:7 They answered again and said, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will reveal its interpretation.”Daniel 2:7

Daniel 2:9 Therefore, if you do not reveal to me the dream, there is only one conclusion to be reached about you, that the interpretation is likewise false, and packed full of deception, so as to speak before me until the time passes away. And so, tell me the dream, so that I will also know that the interpretation that you tell me is likewise true.”Daniel 2:9

Daniel 2:26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Do you really think that you can reveal to me the dream that I saw and its interpretation?”Daniel 2:26

Daniel 2:28 But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, who has revealed to you, king Nebuchadnezzar, what will happen in the latter times. Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed, are such as these.Daniel 2:28

Daniel 2:36 This is the dream; we will also tell its interpretation before you, O king.Daniel 2:36

Daniel 2:45 In accordance with what you saw, because the stone was torn away from the mountain without hands, and it crushed the earthenware, and the iron, and the brass, and the silver, and the gold, the great God has shown the king what will happen after this. And the dream is true, and its interpretation is faithful.”Daniel 2:45

Daniel 4:5 I saw a dream that terrified me, and my thoughts on my bed and the visions in my head disturbed me.Daniel 4:5

Daniel 4:6 And so a decree was established by me, that all of the wise men of Babylon should be brought in before me, and that they should reveal to me the answer to the dream.Daniel 4:6

Daniel 4:7 Then the seers, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers entered, and I explained about the dream in their presence, but they did not reveal its answer to me.Daniel 4:7

Daniel 4:8 And then their colleague came in before me, Daniel, (whose name is Belteshazzar according to the name of my god,) who has the spirit of the holy gods within his very self, and I told the dream directly to him.Daniel 4:8

Daniel 4:9 Belteshazzar, leader of the seers, since I know that you have in you the spirit of the holy gods, and that no mystery is unreachable to you, explain to me the visions of my dreams, which I saw, and the solution to them.Daniel 4:9

Daniel 4:18 I, king Nebuchadnezzar, saw this dream. And so you, Belteshazzar, must quickly explain to me the interpretation because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to declare the meaning of it to me. But you are able because the spirit of the holy gods is in you.Daniel 4:18

Daniel 4:19 Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, began silently to think within himself for about one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. But the king responded, saying, “Belteshazzar, do not let the dream and its interpretation disturb you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, the dream is for those who hate you, and its interpretation may be for your enemies.Daniel 4:19

Daniel 5:12 For a greater spirit, and foresight, and understanding, and interpretation of dreams, and the revealing of secrets, and the solution to difficulties were found in him, that is, in Daniel, to whom the king gave the name Belteshazzar. Now, therefore, let Daniel be summoned, and he will explain the interpretation.”Daniel 5:12

Daniel 7:1 In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, Daniel saw a dream and a vision in his head on his bed. And, writing down the dream, he understood it in a concise manner, and so, summarizing it tersely, he said:Daniel 7:1

Number of the word / term Dream in Daniel: 22

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Joel

Joel 2:28 And after this, it will happen that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy; your elders will dream dreams, and your youths will see visions.Joel 2:28

Number of the word / term Dream in Joel: 1

Bible passages with ‘Dream’ in the book Acts

Acts 2:17 ‘And this shall be: in the last days, says the Lord, I will pour out, from my Spirit, upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. And your youths shall see visions, and your elders shall dream dreams.Acts 2:17

Number of the word / term ‘Dream’ in Acts: 1

These texts are taken from the following version: Catholic Public Domain Version.

Number of Bible Verses found on the topic: 79

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