חָלַם châlam — properly, to bind firmly, i.e. (by implication) to be (causatively to make) plump
Translated in the KJV as dream, 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.
châlam in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 12Wayyiqtol 6Participle (active) 5Imperfect (yiqtol) 4
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.
And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Participle (active) 1
O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›