Matthew 2:12

Warned in a dream (crhmatisqente kat onar). The verb means to transact business (crhmatizw from crhma, and that from craomai, to use. Then to consult, to deliberate, to make answer as of magistrates or an oracle, to instruct, to admonish. In the Septuagint and the New Testament it occurs with the idea of being warned by God and also in the papyri (Deissmann, Bible Studies, p. 122). Wycliff puts it here: "An answer taken in sleep."