Bible Verses About Interpreting Dreams
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for interpreting dreams, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,144 votes, led by Acts 2:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Interpreting Dreams
Acts 2:17203 votes
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
Genesis 40:8188 votes
And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.
Amos 3:7168 votes
Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
Ecclesiastes 5:7140 votes
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
Numbers 12:6125 votes
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
1 Corinthians 2:13102 votes
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Joel 2:2899 votes
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
Job 33:1591 votes
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
Daniel 4:19-3681 votes
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.
Habakkuk 2:2-378 votes
And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
Daniel 2:2872 votes
But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
Daniel 7:1-772 votes
In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
Daniel 10:1454 votes
Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.
Daniel 2:1-4950 votes
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
Genesis 46:244 votes
And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.
Daniel 2:1-338 votes
And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
John 3:1334 votes
And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
Daniel 7:1530 votes
I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.
Zechariah 10:230 votes
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.
Proverbs 29:1829 votes
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Daniel 10:128 votes
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
Joshua 24:1527 votes
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Daniel 8:1526 votes
And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man.
Romans 7:1520 votes
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Joshua 1:318 votes
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
What does the Bible say about interpreting dreams?
Readers most often cite Acts 2:17 on the subject of interpreting dreams. Across 2,144 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 40:8, Amos 3:7, Ecclesiastes 5:7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.