ἐνύπνιον
enýpnion · G1798 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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dream
A dream as a means of communication
ExamplesActs 2:17 ‘AND IT SHALL BE IN THE LAST DAYS,’ God says, ‘THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON ALL MANKIND; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS WILL PROPHESY, AND YOUR YOUNG MEN WILL SEE VISIONS, AND YOUR OLD MEN WILL HAVE DREAMS;
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὄναρ ónar · G3677 · dream
- The target term ἐνύπνιον and ὄναρ (“a dream”) both denote a dream as a nocturnal vision, sharing an identical narrow sense, with at most a subtle difference in emphasis between the two Greek terms for “dream.”
In the other Testament 1 word
- חֲלוֹם chălôwm · H2472 · dream
- חֲלוֹם (chălôwm, H2472) is the standard Hebrew term for “dream” and serves as the direct semantic equivalent of ἐνύπνιον (enýpnion, G1798), the Greek term for a dream or vision seen in sleep, consistently paired across dream narratives in the Septuagint.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dream33.486
- This noun denotes the dream itself as a nighttime vision, used of Peter's citation of Joel's promise that young men would see visions and old men would have dreams — "your young men will see visions, and your old men will have dreams" (Acts 2:17).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐνυπνίου, τό (ἐν and ὕπνος, what appears in sleep; from Aeschylus down), a dream…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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