Efraim
Ephraim was the second son born to Joseph in Egypt and was, along with his older brother Manasseh, elevated by Jacob to the same status...
Israel
'Israel,' in Jeremiah 23:8, signifies the spiritual natural church. The children of Israel dispersed all the literal sense of the Word by falsities. 'The children...
baäl
Baalim and her lovers (Hosea 2:13) signify those things which belong to the natural man, and are loved; such as the lusts and falsities thence...
beeld
'An image' signifies falsities from self-derived intelligence.
silwer
'Money' relates to truth.
gesê
As with many common verbs, the meaning of “to say” in the Bible is highly dependent on context. Who is speaking? Who is hearing? What...
kalwers
Calves of the lips (Hos 14:2) are confessions from the affection of truth.
dou
Dew, in Deut. 32:2 signifies the multiplication of truth from good, and the fructification of good by truth.
vroeg
Morning comes with the rising of the sun, and the sun – which gives life to the earth with its warmth and light – represents...
kaf
Chaff is mentioned in Matthew 3:12 signifies falsity of every kind, derived from an infernal origin.
dorsvloer
The floor, as in Matthew 3:12, signifies the world of spirits which is between heaven and hell, and where the separation of evils and falsities...
rook
'Smoke' signifies divine truth in extremes, because 'fire' which gives off smoke, signifies love. 'Smoke' also signifies the same thing as 'cloud' in many places....
Here
The Lord, in the simplest terms, is love itself expressed as wisdom itself. In philosophic terms, love is the Lord's substance and wisdom is His...
God
When the Bible speaks of "Jehovah," it is representing love itself, the inmost love that is the essence of the Lord. That divine love is...
woestyn
'Wilderness' signifies something with little life in it, as described in the internal sense in Luke 1:80 'Wilderness' signifies somewhere there is no good because...
land
"Earth" in the Bible can mean a person or a group of like-minded people as in a church. But it refers specifically to the external...
versadig
'To satiate' relates to the extent of a person's will, for good or evil.
hart
The heart means love. A good heart means love to the Lord and to the neighbor while a hard or stony heart means the love...
vergeet
To forget, in the internal sense, signifies nothing else but removal and apparent privation.
luiperd
'A leopard,' being a crafty and insidious animal, particularly represents people who confirm faith separate from good works. 'A leopard' signifies the affection or lust...
pad
These days we tend to think of "roads" as smooth swaths of pavement, and judge them by how fast we can drive cars on them....
veld
When we have a desire to be good people and to do good things, the natural first questions are "What does that mean?" "What should...
koning
The human mind is composed of two parts, a will and an understanding, a seat of loves and affections, and a seat of wisdom and...
stede
Cities of the mountain and cities of the plain (Jeremiah 33:13) signify doctrines of charity and faith.
regters
It’s easy to see the connection between judging and truth. In a court of law, the judge’s whole purpose is to find the truth. In...
gee
Like other common verbs, the meaning of "give" in the Bible is affected by context: who is giving what to whom? In general, though, giving...
vorste
Captains and Rulers (Jer. 51:23) signifies principal evils and falsities. Captains and Rulers (Ezek 33:6) signifies principal truths. See Chief Captains.
toorn
'Wrath,' as in Genesis 49:7, signifies aversion from truth. 'Great wrath,' as in Revelation 12:12, signifies hatred against the new church.
ongeregtigheid
In the Word three terms are used to mean bad things that are done. These three are transgression, iniquity, and sin, and they are here...
sonde
In the Word three terms are used to mean bad things that are done. These three are transgression, iniquity, and sin, and they are here...
kind
A child is a young boy or girl in the care of parents, older than a suckling or an infant, but not yet an adolescent....
tyd
Time is an aspect of the physical world, but according to Swedenborg is not an aspect of the spiritual world. The same is true of...
verlos
'To redeem' signifies vindication and liberation, because there are two words in the original language, which mean 'redemption.' One means vindication from evil, and the...
oë
It’s common to say “I see” when we understand something. And indeed, “seeing” in the Bible represents grasping and understanding spiritual things. So it makes...
verborge
'To hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains,' as mentioned in Revelation 6:15, signifies being in evils and in falsities...
broers
Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
kom
As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “come” in the Bible is highly dependent on context – its meaning is determined largely by...
wind
Because a nearer and stronger divine influx through the heavens disperses truths among the wicked, 'wind' signifies this dispersion of truth and the resulting conjunction...
fontein
A fountain signifies the Lord and the Word. A fountain signifies superior truth, and well, inferior truth. A fountain, as in Psalm 104:10, denotes knowledges....
skat
'Treasure,' as in Matthew 13:44, signifies divine truth in the Word.
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