26 Bible Verses About Interpretation

And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

Elihu also proceeded, and said,

And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.

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.

And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.

And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.

And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:

And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.

And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal’s wife the Carmelite.

And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth–shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.

When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head:

Then said Achish unto his servants, Lo, ye see the man is mad: wherefore then have ye brought him to me?

And the word of the Lord came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.

And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.

The seven good kine are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one.

When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber.

For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.