Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbolsBody Parts in dreams
56 symbols · biblical meanings from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
Ankle
Physical stability, spiritual healing, and pride.
✦ Positive: Strength; Flexibility; The first depth of the river, where one begins to enter God's flow
⚠ Warning: Pride, as with the daughters of Zion walking with stretched-forth necks and tinkling with their feet; An ankle turned or weak, representing stability lost
Arm
Your position, place of influence, God-given office.
✦ Positive: Your position and place of influence; Your God-given office
⚠ Warning: Arm being cut off = loss of position and place of influence
Scripture: 1 Samuel 2:31
Back
The past things of your life; that which is behind you; giving a blind eye to something; choosing to avoid something.
⚠ Warning: Turning your back on something God wants you to face; Living in the past; Avoidance
Birthmark
A divine brand.
✦ Positive: A reminder of one's peculiarity; Distinction given before birth
⚠ Warning: Having forgotten the birthmark, or its being lost, representing losing sight of one's distinct grace and forgetting one's spiritual identity
Blood
That which concerns life and soul. Dreaming of blood may also be a prediction of death.
✦ Positive: The life and soul of a person
⚠ Warning: A prediction of death or threat to life — pray immediately
Bones
Lifelessness, hopelessness and despair.
✦ Positive: Bone of my bone, representing oneness, a shared life, and a life partner; Dry bones being joined and raised, representing restoration of what looked finished
⚠ Warning: Absence of life; No hope; A hard situation; A broken spirit that drieth the bones
Breath
God's breath is God's Spirit; human breath is the human spirit. Breath represents the animating life force given by God that sustains existence.
✦ Positive: Life and renewal; The imparting of life; Divine inspiration; Spiritual revitalisation; The sustaining presence of God within humanity
⚠ Warning: Frailty and vanity; Human arrogance proving empty; Life easily snuffed out
Buttocks
Shame, stripped, undignified, dishonor, disrespect.
⚠ Warning: Shame; Dishonor and disrespect; Being stripped of dignity
Scripture: Isaiah 20:4; 1 Chronicles 19:4
Canines
PROTECT — how you defend and assert yourself. Pointed teeth grip, tear and pierce: they speak of tenacity, of how tightly you hold your convictions, defend your territory and press through a stubborn barrier.
✦ Positive: Standing firm and defending what is yours; Tenacity in holding to your convictions
⚠ Warning: Being challenged, pressured or guarded against
Cheek
Beauty, attraction and love.
✦ Positive: Good will; Liking; Pure intentions
⚠ Warning: Evil intent; Ulterior motives; Hidden motivation; Public disgrace through a smitten cheek
Chest
Personal inner thoughts, one's secret feelings and desires; warmth, leaning on (trust), a place of comfort and consolation.
✦ Positive: Secret feelings and desires; Warmth and trust; Comfort and consolation
Chin/Beard
Age or growth; a beard also signifies church elders or leadership.
✦ Positive: Age, growth, maturity; Church elders and leadership
Scripture: Psalm 133:1-3
Ears
Spiritual comprehension, obedience to God, understanding of spiritual things.
✦ Positive: Spiritual comprehension and obedience; Understanding of spiritual things; A gold earring = obedient person; A pierced ear = bondservant of the Lord
⚠ Warning: Closed/dull ears = disobedience, spiritual deafness
Elbow
Flexibility and adaptability — the joint that allows the arm to bend and the hand to reach and work.
✦ Positive: Adaptability; Strength made useful through willingness to bend; Reach and capacity to work
⚠ Warning: An injured or immobile elbow, representing rigidity — strength that cannot be applied; Inflexibility
Eyebrows
Spiritual maturity and readiness to receive and carry revelation from the Lord — the capacity to bear what God reveals without becoming overwhelmed or hindered.
✦ Positive: Maturity and readiness to steward revelation; Your own eyebrows — how a situation, revelation, or experience affects you emotionally
Eyelashes
Spiritual protection over revelation and vision — as eyelashes trap dust, filter sunlight, and reduce tear evaporation, they represent God's protection of what He is revealing.
✦ Positive: God's protection over revelation — which may relate to healing, prosperity, wisdom, purpose, or any blessing the Lord is revealing
Eyes
Window to the soul — spiritual perception, insight, vision, something revealed.
✦ Positive: Spiritual perception and insight; Vision; Something being revealed to you
⚠ Warning: A darkened eye = spiritual blindness (Matthew 6:23)
Scripture: Matthew 6:23
Face
Favour, the heart, and brilliance.
✦ Positive: God's goodness; The contents of one's heart made visible; A radiant face, representing a good heart
⚠ Warning: A face signifying animosity; Expressions revealing hidden intentions of the heart
Feet
Your walk in the Lord, your standing, your position; your coming in and going out.
✦ Positive: Your walk with the Lord; Your standing and position in Christ; Your coming in and going out
Fingers
Each finger represents one of the five ministry offices (Ephesians 4:11).
✦ Positive: Each finger indicating a specific ministry calling
Forehead
Boldness, a stern choice, unwavering, unafraid, mind made up; also conspicuousness and prominence.
✦ Positive: Boldness; A firm, unwavering choice; Unafraid; Conspicuous and prominent
⚠ Warning: Without courage; Unsure and indecisive; Confused and fearful
Front Teeth
PRESENT — how you present yourself: your image and expression. Front teeth are the first thing seen when you speak or smile, so they speak of your skill, your sharp edge, and how your capabilities are presented to the world.
✦ Positive: Skill and competence that others can see; Readiness to bite into a new assignment; A clear, well-presented image
⚠ Warning: Losing your sharp edge or your public reputation
Hair
Honour, beauty and glory. Nicely cut hair represents trimmed thoughts.
✦ Positive: Good meditations; Pure thoughts; Renewed thinking; A woman's glory; Deeply-held thoughts and meditations
⚠ Warning: Bad hair, representing negative thoughts and unrenewed thinking; Being without glory; Cares, worries and anxious thoughts
Hand
Power, the handle of something; an open hand means your capacity to receive or openness to receive from God.
✦ Positive: Power and might; Open hand = capacity and openness to receive from God; Your work and ability
⚠ Warning: Closed hand = disconnected, inaccessible, unreceptive
Head
A leader, a father in a family, preeminence — Christ is the Head of the Church.
✦ Positive: Leadership; Preeminence; Christ as Head of the Church
Scripture: Ephesians 1:22-23
Heart
The innermost issues; the seat of the emotions; the spirit man.
✦ Positive: The human spirit within a person; The hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible
⚠ Warning: The source of bad character; Evil motives; Dark secrets kept inward
Knees
Your prayer life, humility, and humbleness.
✦ Positive: An active prayer life; Humility and humbleness before God
⚠ Warning: Trembling or weakening knees = fear, faltering faith
Left Hand
That which is in your power to do; riches and honor are in wisdom's left hand (Proverbs 3:16).
✦ Positive: That which is in your power to do; Riches and honor (wisdom's left hand)
⚠ Warning: Disallowed and dishonor (those on the left in Matthew 25:41 are cursed)
Scripture: Proverbs 3:16; Matthew 25:41
Legs
Bravery, strength, and your integrity to fulfill your promises.
✦ Positive: Bravery; Strength; Integrity in fulfilling promises
Lips
The doors to the street — from Ecclesiastes 12:4, the lips are described as folding doors (the Hebrew is dual, representing folding doors).
✦ Positive: Open lips = communication, expression, and sharing what God has given
⚠ Warning: Closed lips/doors = closed communication; the closing of the doors is listed as a death sign in Ecclesiastes 12
Loins
Preparedness, readiness, about to hasten; also the organ of generations — descendants, posterity, and generational blessing and inheritance.
✦ Positive: Preparedness and readiness; Generational blessing and inheritance; Posterity
In the Bible, the word loins refers to the organ of generations — Levi paid tithes while in Abraham's loins (Hebrews 7:9-10).
Scripture: Hebrews 7:9-10
Molars
PROCESS — how you absorb and work things through. Molars grind and break down tough material, working quietly out of sight: they speak of wisdom, deeply held beliefs, and what you have been digesting over time.
✦ Positive: Meditating on and digesting what you have received; Wisdom and maturity formed by experience
⚠ Warning: A crisis of foundational beliefs; The painful digestion of a hard life lesson
Mouth
Influence, command, sound, and portion — the Hebrew word 'peh' carries these meanings.
✦ Positive: Influence; Command; Sound; Your portion
⚠ Warning: Blowing, puffing, scattering — negative speech and its destructive effects
Nails
Character; a change of life; transformation.
✦ Positive: Trimmed and clean nails, representing a clean and changed character
⚠ Warning: Dirty and long nails, representing bad character and an unclean heart
Neck
A connector, mediator, or meeting point — the neck connects the head (leadership/Christ) to the body (the Church/believer).
✦ Positive: Binding and connecting; A mediating role
⚠ Warning: Where burdens are placed; Burdens, loads, unrest, trouble, perplexity
Nose
Temper, anger, wrath — the Hebrew word for nose ('aph') is the same word used for anger and wrath.
⚠ Warning: Temper; Anger; Wrath
Palms
Receiving capacity; the ability to carry; power and the ability to act.
✦ Positive: Power and the ability to act; Capacity to receive; Worship and surrender in lifted palms; Being graven on God's palms — the covenant He will not forget
⚠ Warning: Kneeling while balancing on the palms, signifying bodily weakness or being left without strength; Empty palms, representing capacity without supply
Private Parts
Personal secrets and hidden things.
✦ Positive: Things God keeps private
⚠ Warning: Secrets that should not be kept; Exposure of what should remain private
Ribs
Human equality, intimate partnership and unity.
✦ Positive: Unity; Oneness; Singleness of spirit; Being a co-heir
⚠ Warning: A rib broken or taken, representing a partnership wounded or removed
Right Hand
Your exercise or position of authority; a place of blessing, inheritance, and honor.
✦ Positive: Exercise and position of authority; Long life; A place of blessing, inheritance, and honor
Long life (Proverbs 3:16).
'The Lord said to my Lord, Take my highest position of power.' (Acts 2:34)
Scripture: Acts 2:34; Proverbs 3:16; Matthew 25:33-34
Scar
Survival and testimony — a healed wound; carrying the marks of Jesus on the body.
✦ Positive: Evidence of healing; A testimony carried in the body; The marks of the Lord Jesus
⚠ Warning: A scar treated as shame rather than testimony
Shoulder
Responsibility — to carry something, be accountable, answer for something; your portion or share of something.
✦ Positive: Carrying responsibility well; Your God-given portion; 'The government will rest on his shoulders.' (Isaiah 9:6); Obedience — carrying God's presence
⚠ Warning: Overload; Slavery; Overworked and overused
Skeleton
Hopelessness, despair, defeat, failure, scattered.
⚠ Warning: Hopelessness; Despair; Defeat and failure; Being scattered
See Ezekiel 37 — the valley of dry bones, which is the primary Scripture basis.
Scripture: Ezekiel 37
Spine
Courage; strength of character; the ability to stand up for oneself.
✦ Positive: Strong character; Fearlessness; Not a people-pleaser; Unimpressionable — not afraid of being misinterpreted
⚠ Warning: A broken or bent spine, representing courage failing under pressure; Compromise
Stomach
The spirit man inside the body; the capacity to keep secrets; courage (having guts); satisfaction; appetite; pleasure.
✦ Positive: The spirit man inside you; Capacity to keep secrets; Courage; Satisfaction and appetite; Womb/generational potential
⚠ Warning: Gluttony; Unsatisfied appetites; Inability to keep secrets; Cowardice
Also means womb (Jeremiah 1:5) and generational potential.
Scripture: Proverbs 20:27; John 4:14; John 7:37-38; Jeremiah 1:5
Sweat
Operating under a curse; toiling, hustling, striving; effort-based work; the work of the flesh.
⚠ Warning: The arm of the flesh; The work of man rather than the work of God; Toil that produces little
Tears
Deep intercession. In a positive dream context, joy when God wipes away tears and sufferings, or a cleansing release of emotional and spiritual sorrow under God's comfort.
✦ Positive: Deep intercession; Joy — God wiping away tears and sufferings; Cleansing release of sorrow under God's comfort
Teeth
Side teeth = your ability to meditate; front teeth = sharpness, pointing. Also: teaching diligently or teaching by repeated instruction (from Hebrew root 'Shanan').
✦ Positive: Meditation (side teeth); Sharpness and pointedness (front teeth); Teaching by diligent, repeated instruction
⚠ Warning: To prick, to pierce; Hardness — like a cliff or steep obstruction
Thigh
Truth, honesty, oath, and a vow — in Bible times people sealed a promise by placing a hand under the other's thigh.
✦ Positive: Truth, honesty; An oath or vow being made or sealed
Throat
Appetite.
✦ Positive: A normal throat, representing a controlled appetite; Speech that is clean
⚠ Warning: A large throat, representing uncontrolled appetite; A bad throat, representing words full of sin, harmful and rotten
Toes
Your walk of obligation — ten toes representing the ten commandments-based walk of obedience.
✦ Positive: Walking in your God-given obligations
The ten toes link to the number Ten (the Church, obedience, walk of obligation) — cross-reference the Ten entry in Numbers.
Tongue
Speech, words, confession — blessing and cursing; also spiritual discernment or perception (you taste with your tongue).
✦ Positive: Blessing through words and confession; Spiritual discernment and perception
⚠ Warning: Cursing through words; Destructive speech
Voice
Action or speech; a stance; proclamation; walking in the authority of one's calling.
✦ Positive: Action taken; Calling people to God; Good influence
⚠ Warning: A voice silenced or lost; A voice followed without discerning whose it is
Womb
A place that incubates gifts and purposes; fertility, increase and multiplication; a place of being set apart; divine calling.
✦ Positive: Fruitfulness; Multiplication and increase; Productivity; Life-giving; Being set apart before birth
⚠ Warning: Barrenness; Innate human sinfulness — shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin
Wrist
Honour, beauty, covenant or betrothal, wealth and blessing, dignity and status.
✦ Positive: God's favour; Blessing; A covenant token received
⚠ Warning: Bound or shackled wrists, representing capacity restrained; Ornaments stripped away