cha.lom denotes a dream: an experience slept, recounted, interpreted, or used as a comparison for something fleeting.

The term most often names dreams that people experience, recount, seek to understand, or receive in contexts of speech and warning; the supplied verses also use it in comparisons for something that vanishes or has the character of a nighttime vision.

1. Dream experience, report, or interpretation · dominant

   Singular and plural noun forms identify dreams as experiences that can be recounted and interpreted: in Genesis 40:5 the APB renders each prisoner as dreaming and having an interpretation, while Genesis 41:15 presents Pharaoh's dream as needing interpretation. In Genesis 20:3 and Genesis 31:24, the APB renders God as coming or speaking in a dream at night; in Jeremiah 23:32, dreams are recounted and are described as deceptive.

   Genesis 20:3Genesis 31:24Genesis 40:5Genesis 41:15Jeremiah 23:32Daniel 2:3
2. Figurative comparison to a dream · rare

   In Job 20:8, the APB compares a person who disappears to a dream that cannot be found. In Isaiah 29:7, the coming crowd of nations is compared to a dream or nighttime vision, using the term as an image rather than reporting someone’s dream.

   Job 20:8Isaiah 29:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the noun with “dream” or “dreams,” especially where a person dreams, recounts the experience, or seeks an interpretation. In figurative clauses it retains “dream” within the comparison.