noun · neuter
onarem
Strong’sG3677
a dream
stem onar-6 times in the New Testament0 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
* ὄναρ, τό,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3677 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidon'-ar
a dream
Fromof uncertain derivation;
King Jamesdream.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
used only in nominative and accusative singular, the other cases being supplied by ὄνειρος (which see):— dream, vision in sleep, opposed to a waking vision, οὐκ ὄ., ἀλλ᾽ ὕπαρ ἐσθλόν Refs 8th c.BC+; ἄκουε δὴ ὄ. ἀντὶ ὀνείρατος dream for dream, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὥστε μηδὲ ὄ. ἰδεῖν, of profound sleep, Refs 'you are telling me what I know already', Refs
2 proverbial of anything fleeting or unreal, ὀλιγοχρόνιον.. ὥσπερ ὄ. Refs 6th c.BC+; ὄ. ἡμερόφαντον ἀλαίνει, of an old man, Refs 4th c.BC+
II in Trag. and Attic dialect frequently as adverb, in a dream, in sleep, ὄ. γὰρ ὑμᾶς νῦν Κλυταιμνήστρα καλῶ Refs; ὄ. διώκεις θῆραRefs 5th c.BC+, etc.; also οὐδ᾽ ὄ. not even in a dream, Refs 5th c.BC+; μηδ᾽ ἰδὼν ὄ. not even in my dreams, Refs 5th c.BC+ 11; κατ᾽ ὄναρ in a dream, condemned by NT+2nd c.AD+: with sense, in consequence of a dream, in Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | onarem | onareim |
| of, belonging to genitive | onareu | onareiu |
| to, for dative | onare | onarei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
onare is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
6 occurrences, every one of them listed
onarem6×
Matthew 1:20… autou enthumirantou idou angelos kuriou kata onarem fanita auto legarōntos; Iōsēf huios David, …… Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David …
Matthew 2:12kai chrēmatizirantois kata onarem mē anakamptara pros Hērōdon dia allosau …And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they …
Matthew 2:13… autoiu idou angelos kuriou fanotō kata onarem to Iōsēf legarōntos; Egerirantos paralabasar tem …… Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up!” he said. “Take the …
Matthew 2:19… Hērōdou idou angelos kuriou fanotō kata onarem to Iōsēf en Aigupta… of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt.
Matthew 2:22… fobita ekei aperchara; chrēmatizirantos de kata onarem anachōrata eis teim mereim tau Galilaiau,… And having been warned in a dream, he withdrew to the district of …
Matthew 27:19… ekeino, polleim gar paschama sēmeron kata onarem dia auton.… I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”