Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbolsNature in dreams
64 symbols · biblical meanings from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
Apple Tree
A pleasant, dear, loved person.
✦ Positive: Someone pleasant, dear, and loved
'Like an apple tree among the trees in the forest, so is my beloved.' (Song of Solomon 2:3)
Scripture: Song of Solomon 2:3
Ash
The remnants of a past season that has been consumed.
✦ Positive: A consumed past making way for beauty in exchange
⚠ Warning: Clinging to the remnants of what has already burned away
Bitter Herbs
About to experience suffering; or supernatural healing (if you have a physical ailment and dream of being given bitter herbs — a picture of Christ's suffering purchasing our healing).
✦ Positive: Supernatural healing coming (especially in context of physical ailment)
⚠ Warning: About to experience suffering
Cassice
'Stoop or bow down' — speaks of worship. Satan as king of Tyre trafficked in Cassice, making it a caution against false worship.
✦ Positive: Genuine worship
⚠ Warning: False worship — Satan trafficked in this substance
Scripture: Ezekiel 27:19; Ezekiel 28:18
Cave
A hiding place, a refuge; Christ.
✦ Positive: A hiding place of refuge; Christ as your refuge and hiding place
Cinnamon
'The appearance of jealousy' — mainly means Christ's divine jealousy over us. From Hebrew Kinna (jealousy) + min (the appearance of).
✦ Positive: Christ's divine jealousy over you — His possessive love
Clay
Nothingness, abasement, unworthiness, the nature of the human fall — weak, fragile; but positively: God molding you in line with His purpose.
✦ Positive: God molding you in line with His purpose and will
⚠ Warning: Nothingness; Unworthiness; Weakness; Fragility
Cloud
The saints who have gone before us — the great cloud of witnesses; also one of the attributes of the Holy Spirit's leadership.
✦ Positive: The cloud of witnesses — saints who have gone before; The Holy Spirit's guidance and leadership
Corn
Food provision; the season of harvest. The cornfield means the Kingdom of God.
✦ Positive: Food provision; Harvest season; The Kingdom of God (cornfield)
Scripture: Matthew 13:24
Darkness
Mysteries of God (positive — He made darkness His hiding place); works of darkness and devilish activity (negative).
✦ Positive: God's mysteries — 'He made the darkness his hiding place' (Psalm 18:11)
⚠ Warning: Works of darkness; Devilish activity
Scripture: Psalm 18:11; Luke 22:53
Dew
Increase, multiplication, fertility, favor, the blessing, God's goodness.
✦ Positive: Increase; Multiplication; Fertility; Favor; God's blessing; The gentle, early touch of the Holy Spirit
The gentle, refreshing, and early touch of the Holy Spirit.
Scripture: Genesis 27:28; Psalm 133:3
Drought
A dry season, famine, insufficiency, lack.
⚠ Warning: Dry season; Famine; Insufficiency; Lack
Earthquake
Terrifying; the shaking of kingdoms or systems.
⚠ Warning: Terror; The shaking of kingdoms or systems
A massive shaking or transformation of your foundation — personal, or of your community, ministry, or nation.
Depending on context, the shaking may concern personal foundations, community, ministry, or nation.
Scripture: Matthew 27:54
Eclipse
A temporary loss of light or clarity; a hidden season.
✦ Positive: A hidden season under God's hand
⚠ Warning: A temporary loss of light or clarity
Fig Tree
A sign that summer (a jubilant, rejoicing, harvest season) is near; also marks the sign of end times and Israel.
✦ Positive: A jubilant season of harvest approaching; A sign of end times and Israel's role
⚠ Warning: Hypocrisy — the fig tree that has leaves but no fruit; appearance of godliness without substance; Fig leaves sewn together — religion: covering shame by our own effort (Genesis 3:7), in contrast to God's covering through blood, the garments of skins (Genesis 3:21)
Fire
The Holy Spirit's power; God's judgment; trials.
✦ Positive: The Holy Spirit's power
⚠ Warning: God's judgment; Trials; Sparks of fire = trouble
Sparks of fire mean trouble (Job 5:7).
Scripture: Luke 3:16; Psalm 78:21; Psalm 66:12; Job 5:7
Flood
Defense and fortitude of the Holy Spirit; or satanic invasion and swift destruction.
✦ Positive: The Holy Spirit's defense and fortitude — a flood standard raised against the enemy
⚠ Warning: Satanic invasion and swift destruction
Flower
Blooming, flourishing, goodliness.
✦ Positive: Blooming; Flourishing; Goodliness
⚠ Warning: The glory of man — that which withers away
Scripture: 1 Peter 1:24
Fog
What quickly disappears; boasting; a false gift.
⚠ Warning: What quickly disappears; Boasting; A false gift that is bragged about but never given; Confusion or a lack of clarity in your current path
Forest
Alone, deserted, desolate, abandoned; a place of trials, wilderness. Trees in the forest also mean a lot of people, unbelievers. Also means the world.
⚠ Warning: Desolation; Trials; Wilderness; A world of unbelievers
Scripture: Joshua 17:15,18
Frost
To expiate, atone, forgive, merciful, appease, reconciliation, pardon, cancel (the Hebrew root 'kaphar').
✦ Positive: Atonement; Forgiveness; Reconciliation; Pardon; Cancellation of debt
⚠ Warning: Destruction (Psalm 78:47); What quickly disappears
The Hebrew word for frost comes from 'kaphar' — the same root as atonement.
Scripture: Psalm 78:47
Fruits
Fruits of the human spirit in a believer's life — works of righteousness, fruitfulness. Fruits have seeds, meaning a harvest whose longevity is determined by you — eat and sow, don't devour the seed.
✦ Positive: Fruits of the Spirit; Works of righteousness; Fruitfulness; A pleasant season; Restoration (grapes); Prominence after crushing (olive)
⚠ Warning: Unripe fruit = a sour or unfavorable experience
Grass
Sustenance and provision for believers; also material things, works of man, that which fades away and does not last.
✦ Positive: Sustenance and provision (Psalm 23:2)
⚠ Warning: Material things that fade away; Works of man that do not endure
Scripture: Psalm 23:2; Psalm 37:2
Ground
Heart(s) or the believer's life.
✦ Positive: The receptive heart — good ground producing fruit
⚠ Warning: Hard ground — an unreceptive heart
See Mark 4:14-20 — the Parable of the Sower and the different types of ground.
Scripture: Mark 4:14-20
Hail
Destruction and judgment.
⚠ Warning: Destruction; Judgment
Scripture: Exodus 9:22
Hay
The works or products of man's fallen nature — that which comes from man and cannot please God, his cursed nature.
⚠ Warning: Man's fallen, cursed works; What cannot please God
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:12
Hyssop
Faith — a small plant growing out of walls, a picture of little faith capable of impossibilities; also the precious peace of the recreated spirit.
✦ Positive: Faith; Peace of the recreated spirit
Scripture: Exodus 12:22; Psalm 51:7
Land
Earth, common, field, world, earthy.
✦ Positive: Earth; The field of ministry
⚠ Warning: What is worldly or earthy
Light
God's Word; works of righteousness.
✦ Positive: God's Word as a lamp; Works of righteousness
'Your word is a lamp for my feet and a light for my path.' (Psalm 119:105)
Scripture: Psalm 119:105
Lightning
God's glory; what God will perform speedily; supernatural acceleration; the Second Coming of Christ.
✦ Positive: God's glory; Supernatural acceleration; The Second Coming of Christ; In a light, colourful, peaceful dream — a sudden, divine, illuminating realization
⚠ Warning: Judgment or scattering; In a negative context — imminent destruction or chaos
Scripture: Daniel 10:6; Ezekiel 1:14; Matthew 24:27; Zechariah 9:14; Isaiah 144:6
Mist
Human lifespan; false teaching and false teachers; what quickly disappears.
⚠ Warning: Human lifespan's brevity; False teaching; False teachers; What quickly disappears; Minor, passing uncertainty
'What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.' (James 4:14)
Scripture: James 4:14; 2 Peter 2:17; Isaiah 44:22
Moon
The Body of Christ — the Church. As the moon receives its light from the sun and reflects it, believers exhibit Christ's life and glory.
✦ Positive: The Body of Christ reflecting Christ's glory
Mountain
Kingdom; a place of exaltation; or problems, distraction, limitation, obstacle.
✦ Positive: Kingdom; Exaltation; A high spiritual position
⚠ Warning: Problems; Distraction; Limitation; Obstacle
'Say to this mountain, move.' (Mark 11:23) — the mountain as a problem to be commanded away.
Scripture: Daniel 2:44-45; Mark 11:23
Mustard Seed
The measure of faith God has given all believers — the smallest seed that grows into the biggest tree; faith that can grow to unprecedented heights.
✦ Positive: Faith that grows to unprecedented heights
Scripture: Romans 12:3
Myrrh
Death — it exudes its fragrance by crushing. Trials by the result of the cross that is able to bring out glory in us.
✦ Positive: Trials that bring out glory; Christ's suffering producing fragrance
⚠ Warning: Death
Olive Tree
A symbol of reconciliation and peace; also to be prominent.
✦ Positive: Reconciliation; Peace; Prominence
Palm Tree
Upright (righteousness); reaching broadly upwards; standing out.
✦ Positive: Righteousness; Standing out; Reaching upward
Rain
Heavenly provision, God's goodness, a blessing, God's supply.
✦ Positive: Heavenly provision; God's goodness; Blessing; God's supply
Rainbow
Everlasting promise, covenant, oath.
✦ Positive: God's everlasting promise; Covenant; Oath; The end of a destructive cycle; A rainbow after rain — assurance of victory after a season of trial
Reed
Carried away by every kind of doctrine; lacking Christian character; unstable, easily shaken, deceived, flattered.
⚠ Warning: Doctrinal instability; Easily deceived or flattered; Lack of Christian character
Scripture: Ephesians 4:14
Refining Fire
Purification.
✦ Positive: Intimacy with God; Temporary and purposeful — to produce a refined faith, for holiness
⚠ Warning: Judgment and destruction to the world
Rock
Christ the protector.
✦ Positive: Christ as the Rock — protector, foundation
'They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.' (1 Corinthians 10:4)
Scripture: Genesis 49:24; 1 Corinthians 10:4
Sand
People; earthly glory, fame, seeking people's approval, fleshly motives.
⚠ Warning: Earthly glory; Seeking people's approval; Fleshly motives; An unstable foundation
'Everyone who hears what I say but doesn't obey it will be like a foolish person who built a house on sand.' (Matthew 7:26-27)
Scripture: Matthew 7:26-27
Seed
The Word of God (prophetic or written) — requires action from your part to initiate its process, since a seed requires planting before it can grow.
✦ Positive: The Word of God — requiring faith-action to grow
Shadow
What is temporary, fleeting and passing away — and the Old Testament as a shadow of what was to come.
✦ Positive: The shadow of a real thing to come; Being covered under the shadow of the Almighty
⚠ Warning: A shadow that is aggressive or frightening in the dream, representing a spiritual entity revealing itself as a threat when it is in truth only a weak figure
Smoke
A sign of something burning — intense passion in a positive context, or a hidden issue or demonic activity in a negative context.
✦ Positive: Intense passion burning within
⚠ Warning: A hidden issue smouldering; Demonic activity — 'And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace' (Revelation 9:2)
Snow
Redemption, sanctification (cleansing), purification; also the Word of God that produces results.
✦ Positive: Redemption; Sanctification; Purification; The productive Word of God
'My word, which comes from my mouth, is like the rain and snow. It will not come back to me without results.' (Isaiah 55:11)
Scripture: Isaiah 1:18; Isaiah 55:11
Stars
Glory; God's saints; angels.
✦ Positive: Glory; God's saints (Daniel 12:3); Angels (Job 38:7, Revelation 12:4)
Scripture: Daniel 12:3; Job 38:7; Revelation 12:4
Stone
The chief cornerstone being Christ; the lively or precious stones being believers.
✦ Positive: Christ as the cornerstone; Believers as living stones
⚠ Warning: Hardness of heart; The heart of the unbelieving
Scripture: 1 Peter 2:6; 1 Peter 2:5
Storm
God's anger; a commotion brought by the enemy.
⚠ Warning: God's angry wrath; Enemy-instigated commotion
Scripture: Job 36:33
Stubble
The weaknesses of man, the deadness and uselessness of the natural life.
⚠ Warning: Man's weakness; Deadness; Uselessness of the natural life
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:12
Sun
Christ as the ultimate Light and glory of all mankind.
✦ Positive: Christ as the ultimate Light and glory
Sunrise
A fresh spiritual dawn, healing, and new beginnings.
✦ Positive: A fresh spiritual dawn; Healing; New beginnings
Sunset
The closing of a season, or a warning of approaching spiritual night.
✦ Positive: The closing of a season
⚠ Warning: Warning of approaching spiritual night
Sweet Calamus
'Stand upright' in Hebrew — signifies our position of righteousness in Christ.
✦ Positive: Standing upright in righteousness in Christ
It's a reed or cane.
Thorn
A curse, hindrance, offense — the result of Adam's fall; the ground cursed to produce thistles and thorns.
⚠ Warning: Curse; Hindrance; Offense; Unseen opposition
Thornbush
Sin, the fall, or the curse as a result of the fall.
⚠ Warning: Sin; The fall; Curse; Persecution; Offense
The thorn bush Moses saw burning = God judging sin. The Hebrew root means 'to prick' — to persecute, offend, or incite.
Thunder
Judgment.
⚠ Warning: God's judgment
Scripture: Exodus 9:23
Tree
Your life's work, empire, marketplace influence, or ministerial impact. Also family — branches speak of children.
✦ Positive: A fruitful life's work and ministry; Your family tree — branches = children
'He is like a tree planted beside streams — a tree that produces fruit in season.' (Psalm 1:3)
Scripture: Psalm 1:1,3; Jeremiah 17:7-8; Job 18:16
Vegetables
Labor or service of man; also to glisten, excel, radiate, outshine. Three types: edible leaves, edible roots, edible seeds — each with specific meanings.
✦ Positive: Labor and service; God's promises (raw leafy); Generational blessings (roots); Seasonal harvest (seeds)
⚠ Warning: Effort required before enjoying (cooked vegetables); Offensive or intense experience (garlic)
Vine
The life of Christ expressed in the Church — the vine represents Christ's life; the branches represent believers engrafted into that life.
✦ Positive: Union with Christ; His life flowing through you
Scripture: John 15
Volcano
An erupting issue or intense inner power that can no longer be contained.
✦ Positive: Intense inner power breaking forth
⚠ Warning: An erupting issue that can no longer be contained
Depending on the context, it can concern personal life, ministry, community, or nation.
Wind
One of the characteristics of the Holy Spirit; or unfavorable conditions; vanity, emptiness, and vexation of spirit.
✦ Positive: The Holy Spirit (as wind)
⚠ Warning: Unfavorable conditions; Vanity; Emptiness; Vexation of spirit
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 11:4; Ecclesiastes 6:9
Wood
That which is human — man's corruptible nature, Adam's nature. Wood decays (unlike the acacia wood used in the Tabernacle which could not be eaten by termites and does not corrupt — a picture of Christ's incorruptible nature).
⚠ Warning: Man's corruptible nature; Human and decaying
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:12