南
'South' denotes truth in light.
王
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...
神
The Lord is love itself, expressed in the form of wisdom itself. Love, then, is His essence, His inmost. Wisdom - the loving understanding of...
来
Coming (Gen. 41:14) denotes communication by influx.
说
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...
死
Dead (Gen. 23:8) signifies night, in respect to the goodnesses and truths of faith.
女人
'Women,' as in Genesis 45:19, signify the affections of truth. But in Genesis 31:50, 'women' signify affections of not genuine truth, so not of the...
近
'Near,' in the Word, signifies presence and conjunction. 'To be near' signifies being on internal levels. Near,' as in Genesis 19:20, signifies truth bordering upon...
义
The word "righteous" has taken on a bit of negative shading in modern language. That may be because we hear it most often as part...
哥哥
Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
知道
Like so many common verbs, the meaning of "know" in the Bible is varied and dependent on context. And in some cases – when it...
正直
'Integrity,' as in Genesis 20:5, signifies innocence and simplicity.
人
The relationship between men and women is deep and nuanced, and one entire book of the Writings – Conjugial Love or Love in Marriage –...
先知
The idea of a "prophet" is very closely tied to the idea of the Bible itself, since the Bible was largely written by prophets. At...
早
Morning comes with the rising of the sun, and the sun – which gives life to the earth with its warmth and light – represents...
起来
It is common in the Bible for people to "rise up," and it would be easy to pass over the phrase as simply describing a...
大
The word "great" is used in the Bible to represent a state with a strong degree of love and affection, of the desire for good;...
地方
'A dry place,' as in Luke 11:24, signifies states of evil and falsity which are in the life of someone who does the work of...
妻子的
The Hebrew of the Old Testament has six different common words which are generally translated as "wife," which largely overlap but have different nuances. Swedenborg...
杀
'To slay a man to his wounding,' means extinguishing faith, and 'to slay a young man to his hurt,' signifies extinguishing charity, as in Genesis...
羊
A flock, as in Genesis 26, denotes interior or rational good. A flock signifies those who are in spiritual good. A flock signifies natural interior...
给
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...
居住
Inhabitants,' in Isaiah 26:9, signify the men of the church who are in good of doctrine, and thence in the good of life.
住
Many people were nomadic in Biblical times, especially the times of the Old Testament, and lived in tents that could be struck, moved and re-raised...
千
As children, most of us at some point frustrated our mothers into using the phrase “if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand...
银
'Silver,' in the internal sense of the Word, signifies truth, but also falsity. 'Silver' means the truth of faith, or the truth acquired from selfhood,...
女仆
'Maids' denote external affections serving the internal.
耶和华
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...
亚伯拉罕的
Abraham (or Abram, as he is named in the beginning of his story) is one of the major characters in the story of the sacred...
