Hearing God's Voice in DreamsA–Z symbolsShapes in dreams
15 symbols · biblical meanings from Hearing God's Voice in Dreams by Apostle Nicholas V. Mbanjwa
Arc
Spiritual deviation, moral compromise, or departure from God's absolute truth.
✦ Positive: The bow set in the cloud as a token of covenant — where the arc is a rainbow, read it as promise
⚠ Warning: Compromise; A defect of character; Not pursuing God's standard of righteousness
Broken Circle
A broken covenant; a broken or obsolete agreement.
✦ Positive: A warning to pray for a relationship; A call to intercede for one's marriage
⚠ Warning: Unfaithfulness; Betrayal; Abandonment
Circle
Endless, infinite, without end and beginning; surrounding, siege; the vault of the heavens.
✦ Positive: Infinite; Endless; The vault of heaven
⚠ Warning: Surrounding; Siege
Circle glasses = you have come to terms with a particular situation in your life.
Scripture: Job 22:14
Crisscross
Going back and forth spiritually or mentally — inaction.
⚠ Warning: Indecision; Going back and forth; Inaction
Cross (Shape)
A call to self-sacrifice; a call to follow the Lord in humility and death to self; the wisdom of God.
✦ Positive: Surrender; The price of following Him; God's wisdom and power
⚠ Warning: A place of trials, persecution and testing
Cube
Divine perfection, complete holiness, and the absolute presence of God. Because a cube has perfectly equal length, width and height, it serves as a geometric symbol of ultimate balance, stability and unchanging truth.
✦ Positive: God's ultimate nature; His presence; Ultimate power; Divine being; Stability and unchanging truth
⚠ Warning: A cube treated as an object of power in itself
Knot
Binding, the tying of cords, and the making of vows. Daniel is described as having the supernatural ability to loose knots — rendered in modern versions as solving difficult problems or dissolving doubts.
✦ Positive: Oneness; Harmony; Agreement; The God-given ability to loose what others cannot untangle
⚠ Warning: A heavy demonic riddle or a complicated curse — noting that muthi, African witchcraft potions, are tied in knots
Line
Moral integrity, divine guidance, and alignment with God's absolute standard of righteousness.
✦ Positive: God's justice and truth; A path kept straight; Alignment with the standard
⚠ Warning: A line crossed; A line the dreamer will not walk
Pyramid
A structure built to house the mummified body of a dead pharaoh — representing stray worship, worship redirected from God to Egyptian and worldly systems. Biblically, Egypt represents going down to the world.
✦ Positive: IN A POSITIVE-CONTEXT DREAM: a pyramid — a shape with a flat base and triangular faces meeting at an apex — may represent God's nature, His tripartite being and His majesty. It has stood the test of time, does not easily break, and remains a strong object.
⚠ Warning: Man-made religion; Trading God's glory for myths and legends; Turning to the world for help
Rectangle
Represents the whole wide world.
⚠ Warning: The world; The worldly system
According to Revelation 7:1, John perceived the earth as standing on four corners — a rectangle shape. The world has four elements, four cardinal points, and four seasons.
Scripture: Revelation 7:1
Sphere
Divine order, completeness and cosmic boundaries.
✦ Positive: God as all-knowing; Oneness; Completeness; Unity
⚠ Warning: Sudden judgment, as one is tossed like a ball into a large country; Instability and loss of control
Spiral
A life journey; cycles; growth.
✦ Positive: Growth through repeated seasons; A journey progressing upward
⚠ Warning: Cycles that repeat without progress; Descent that feels like movement
Square
The level of attainment; God's standard and measure of righteousness.
✦ Positive: God's fulfilled standard of righteousness
⚠ Warning: Legalism; A legalist; A socially conventional person
Star of David
Judaism, and in traditional Jewish understanding a sign of God's protection.
✦ Positive: Where the dream concerns Israel, the Jewish people, or a calling toward them
⚠ Warning: Assigning mystical power to the shape itself
Triangle
The God shape representing the Trinity, agreement, unity.
✦ Positive: The Trinity; Agreement; Unity
⚠ Warning: Controversy; Opposition; Imbalance; Inability; That which is limited