金
Gold means good, and just as gold was the most precious metal known to ancient mankind so it represents the good of the highest and...
圣
'Sanctuary' signifies the truth of heaven and the church. 'Sanctuary,' as in Ezekiel 24:21, signifies the Word.
石头
Stones in the Bible in general represent truths, or things we know concerning the Lord and what He wants from us and for us in...
头
The head is the part of us that is highest, which means in a representative sense that it is what is closest to the Lord....
手
Scientists believe that one of the most crucial developments in the evolution of humans was bipedalism – walking on two legs. That left our hands...
舌
'The tongue,' as an organ, signifies doctrine, but as speech, or language, it signifies religion. 'Tongue' signifies perception of truth with respect to speech, and...
吃
When we eat, our bodies break down the food and get from it both energy and materials for building and repairing the body. The process...
粪堆
Dunghills as in Lamentations 4:5 signify the falsities of evil.
所多玛
"Sodom" in the Bible represents the love of self and the love of ruling or dominating others springing from the love of self. This is...
倾覆
'Overturned' signifies punishing.
雪
'Snow' signifies truth in extremes, because it is water, which signifies the truths of faith. It also relates to truth because it is white. 'Snow,'...
皮肤
'Skin' corresponds to truth or to falsity in the extremes. 'The skin,' as relates to the grand human, means the natural self. There are spirits...
骨头
Bones are strong and supportive, providing a framework for our bodies and making motion and action possible. They are also the least "alive" part of...
木
'Wood' signifies good, as well the good of love to the Lord as the good of charity towards our neighbor.
妇人
'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...
煮
To boil, as in Genesis 25:29, signifies to heap up.
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...
火
Just as natural fire can be both comforting in keeping you warm or scary in burning down your house, so fire in the spiritual sense...
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...
居民
Inhabitants,' in Isaiah 26:9, signify the men of the church who are in good of doctrine, and thence in the good of life.
敌人
An enemy in the Bible refers to people who are in the love of evil and the false thinking that springs from evil. On a...
耶路撒冷
Jerusalem first comes to or attention in II Samuel, chapter 5 where King David takes it from the Jebusites and makes it his capital. In...
门
"Gates" in ancient times had a significance that does not hold in the modern world. Cities then were enclosed by walls for protection; gates in...
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...
罪恶
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...
祭司
Priests' represent the Lord regarding His divine good. When they do not acknowledge the Lord, they lose their signification of the Lord.
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...
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...
长
'Long' and thence to prolong, refer to good.
我们
Because people are governed by angels and spirits, in Genesis 1:26 it says 'let us make man into our image.' But because the Lord alone...
救
To be saved or rescued means getting true ideas that we can hold to even in the face of a storm of false thinking. Sometimes...
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...
来
Coming (Gen. 41:14) denotes communication by influx.
鹰
Eagle wings, referred to in Daniel 7:3, signify rational principles grounded in man's proprium.
山
'Hills' signify the good of charity.
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...
以东
'Edom' or 'Idumea,' as in Isaiah 34:5, signifies those who are in evil and in falsities thence derived.
