Isaac
'Isaac' represents spiritual love. 'Isaac,' in Genesis 17:19, signifies the rational divine. 'Isaac' signifies the Lord's divine rational in reference to divine good. Isaac' signifies...
Jacob
Jacob is told twice that his name will now be Israel. The first time is when he wrestles with an angel on his journey to...
bénit
The Lord is perfect love expressed as perfect wisdom. He created us so that He could love us, could give us love and wisdom of...
femme
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...
Les filles
Marriages among people – both in the Bible and in life – represent spiritual marriage. Women represent the desire to be good and to do...
filles
Marriages among people – both in the Bible and in life – represent spiritual marriage. Women represent the desire to be good and to do...
Canaan
Canaan signifies a worship in things external without internals, which arose out of the internal church corrupted, called Ham. Thus it is that Ham is...
Paddan
'Padan Aram,' as in Genesis 28:2, signifies the exterior knowledges of good and truth.
Maison
A "house" is essentially a container - for a person, for a family, for several families or even for a large group with shared interests...
béthuel
Bethuel (Gen. 24), signifies the origin of the affection of good.
père
Father in the Word means what is most interior, and in those things that are following the Lord's order, it means what is good. In...
mère
In general, mothers in the Bible represent the Lord's church on earth, or the church among those who know and follow the Lord. In some...
Laban
'Laban' signifies the affection of good in the natural self, or the affection of external good, and properly collateral good of a common stock. The...
Frère
Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
tout-puissant
'Shaddai,' as in Genesis 43:14, signifies temptation, and consolation after temptation. This is because the ancients called the one and only God by various names...
Puissant
'Might' denotes the forces or power of truth.
multiplier
'Produce' denotes fruit derived from the good of charity, and truth of faith.
Assemblée
A congregation is a group of people with common loves, interests, and purposes. It often refers to a church group. In the Word it is...
donne
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...
d'abraham
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...
Abraham
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...
Pays
Generally in the Bible a "country" means a political subdivision ruled by a king, or sometimes a tribe with a territory ruled by a king...
Dieu
Le Seigneur est l'amour lui-même, exprimé sous la forme de la sagesse elle-même. L'amour, donc, est Son essence, Son plus profond. La sagesse - la...
donné
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...
Fils
'A son,' as in Genesis 5:28, signifies the rise of a new church. 'Son,' as in Genesis 24:3, signifies the Lord’s rationality regarding good. 'A...
d'esaü
Esau (Gen. 28:5, etc.) signifies the truth of good in the natural principle. Esau (Gen. 32:3) signifies celestial good in the natural principle.
Esaü
Esau (Gen. 28:5, etc.) signifies the truth of good in the natural principle. Esau (Gen. 32:3) signifies celestial good in the natural principle.
qu'isaac
'Isaac' represents spiritual love. 'Isaac,' in Genesis 17:19, signifies the rational divine. 'Isaac' signifies the Lord's divine rational in reference to divine good. Isaac' signifies...
béni
The Lord is perfect love expressed as perfect wisdom. He created us so that He could love us, could give us love and wisdom of...
envoyé
'Being sent' everywhere signifies, in an internal sense, going forth, as in John 17:8. In similar manner, it is said of the holy of the...
commandé
To command is to give an order that something must be done, and is directed to an individual, or a group. It is an imperative,...
voyant
The symbolic meaning of "seeing" is "understanding," which is obvious enough that it has become part of common language (think about it; you might see...
Ismaël
'Ishmael' represents the first rationality pertaining to the Lord. 'Ishmael' signifies rationality separate from good. 'Ishmael' signifies the Lord's merely human rational. Ishmael, in Genesis...
femmes
The word "woman" is used a number of different ways in the Bible – as a simple description, as someone connected to a man ("his...
Mahalath
'Mahalath,' as in Genesis 28:9, signifies truth from a divine origin.
fille
Marriages among people – both in the Bible and in life – represent spiritual marriage. Women represent the desire to be good and to do...
d'ismaël
'Ishmael' represents the first rationality pertaining to the Lord. 'Ishmael' signifies rationality separate from good. 'Ishmael' signifies the Lord's merely human rational. Ishmael, in Genesis...
sœur
The Lord calls people who are in truth from the good of charity from Him 'sisters,' as in Matthew 12:50. 'Sister' denotes intellectual truth, when...
nébajoth
'Nebaioth,' as in Genesis 28, denotes good of the spiritual church.
rencontra
In natural language, to "meet" someone can be positive or negative: it can be a welcoming and greeting, or it can be "meeting" them in...
Soleil
The 'sun' signifies celestial and spiritual love. The 'sun' in the Word, when referring to the Lord, signifies His divine love and wisdom. Because the...
des pierres
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...
Échelle
A ladder' signifies the communication of truth which is in the lowest place with truth which is in the highest.
Terre
Generally in the Bible a "country" means a political subdivision ruled by a king, or sometimes a tribe with a territory ruled by a king...
Cieux
Les cieux sont des choses célestes et spirituelles. Par conséquent, ce sont des choses intimes, à la fois du royaume du Seigneur dans le ciel...
descendaient
"Down" is used many different ways in natural language, and its spiritual meaning in the Bible is highly dependent on context. Phrases like "bowing down,"...
l'eternel
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...
dit
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...
d'isaac
'Isaac' represents spiritual love. 'Isaac,' in Genesis 17:19, signifies the rational divine. 'Isaac' signifies the Lord's divine rational in reference to divine good. Isaac' signifies...
poussière
Dust, in Ezekiel 26:12, signifies the lowest things which are of the sensual principle of man. In Isaiah 40:12, the dust signifies exterior or natural...
l'occident
Water generally represents what Swedenborg calls “natural truth,” or true concepts about day-to-day matters and physical things. Since all water ultimately flows into the seas,...
septentrion
'North' signifies people who are in obscurity regarding truth. North,' in Isaiah 14:31, signifies hell. The North,' as in Jeremiah 3:12, signifies people who are...
midi
'South' denotes truth in light.
Familles
Families (Gen 8:19) signify goodnesses and truths arranged in man by the Lord, according to order. Families have respect to truths. (Nahum 3:4)
sommeil
In a general sense, sleeping in the Bible represents a state of obscurity about spiritual matters, a state in which you are not recognizing things...
Peur
The fearful signify people who have no faith.
Porte
"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...
Matin
Since the sun represents the Lord, the early morning and sunrise represent a state of enlightenment, with a new and clear understanding coming after a...
Pierre
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...
l'huile
Oil – typically olive oil – was an extremely important product in Biblical times, for food preparation, medicinal ointment and for burning in lamps. As...
Nom
It's easy to see that names are important in the Bible. Jehovah changed Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, changed Jacob to Israel and...
Béthel
When Jacob had his famous dream, of a staircase leading to heaven, he named the place "Bethel," which is Hebrew for "the house of God."...
Ville
Cities of the mountain and cities of the plain (Jer. 33:13) signify doctrines of charity and faith.
Luz
'Luz,' as in Genesis 28, signifies a state wherein truth and good are together in the ultimate principle of order.
vœu
In Genesis 28:20, 'he vowed a vow' denotes, in the internal sense, willing that the Lord will provide. In the highest sense, where the Lord...
Garde
"Keeping" in the Bible generally has to do with controlling the actual actions of life, though in some cases it can mean holding something away...
pain
Just as natural food feeds the natural body, so spiritual food feeds the spiritual body. And since our spiritual body is the expression of what...
manger
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...
habits
It is said, in Deuteronomy 22:11, "Thou shalt not wear a garment of diverse sorts; as of woolen and linen together…”. This means that the...
retourne
There are many instances in the Bible which describe people turning back, looking back or going back. In most cases it is a negative, sometimes...
