Abraham
Abraham (oder Abram, wie er am Anfang seiner Geschichte genannt wird) ist eine der Hauptfiguren in der Geschichte der heiligen Schrift. Er war der Vorfahre...
Namen
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...
ketura
'Keturah,' as in Genesis 25:1, signifies divine truth spiritual, conjoined to divine good spiritual.
jokschan
Jokshan' signifies common lots of the Lord's spiritual kingdom.
medan
'Medan' signifies common lots of the Lord’s spiritual kingdom.
midian
'Midian' signifies people who are in falsity.
zeugte
Gebären oder gezeugt werden ist in seiner Bedeutung der Geburt sehr ähnlich: Es repräsentiert einen geistigen Zustand, der zum nächsten geistigen Zustand führt. "Beget" ist...
dedan
Dedan (Gen. 10) signifies the knowledges of celestial things of an inferior order, such as consist in ritual observances. Dedan, in Jer. 49:8 signifies rituals...
Söhne
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....
Leummim
'Leummim' signify the good of faith and its varieties.
midians
'Midian' signifies people who are in falsity.
isaak
'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...
Geschenke
The gift which Abraham gave to the sons of the concubines which he had, as in Genesis 25:6, signifies lots in the Lord's spiritual kingdom....
Land
"Erde" kann in der Bibel eine Person oder eine Gruppe von Gleichgesinnten wie in einer Kirche bedeuten. Aber sie bezieht sich speziell auf das Äußere...
tage
"Day" describes a state in which we are turned toward the Lord, and are receiving light (which is truth) and heat (which is a desire...
Abrahams
Abraham (oder Abram, wie er am Anfang seiner Geschichte genannt wird) ist eine der Hauptfiguren in der Geschichte der heiligen Schrift. Er war der Vorfahre...
versammelt
To gather, as in Genesis 6:21, refers to those things which are in the memory of man, where they are gathered. It also implies that...
ismael
'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...
Hethiters
'A Hittite' in a good sense, signifies the spiritual church, or the truth of the church. The Hittites were among the upright Gentiles who were...
Vor
In den meisten Fällen ist die Bedeutung von "vorher" ziemlich einfach, sowohl als eine Art der Beurteilung der relativen Zeit, als auch in der Verwendung...
mamre
'Macpelah,' as in Genesis 23:17, signifies regeneration by truth, which relates to faith.
heth
The daughters of Heth, as mentioned in Genesis 27:46, signify the affections of truth from a ground that is not genuine. Here they are the...
sara
'Sarah' denotes truth joined to good. Sarai was called 'Sarah' so she would represent the divine intellectual principle by adding the 'H' from the name...
nach
Laut Swedenborg existieren Zeit und Raum nicht in der spirituellen Realität; sie sind rein natürliche Dinge, die nur auf der physischen Ebene existieren. Das bedeutet,...
gott
Der Herr ist die Liebe selbst, ausgedrückt in der Form der Weisheit selbst. Die Liebe ist also sein Wesen, sein Innerstes. Die Weisheit - das...
Sohn
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....
wohnte
Viele Menschen waren in biblischen Zeiten, vor allem in der Zeit des Alten Testaments, Nomaden und lebten in Zelten, die man schnell abschlagen, umziehen und...
Ismaels
'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...
hagar
Hagar, as mentioned in Genesis 16, signifies the affection of sciences of the outward self and also the life of the outer or natural self.
magd
'A handmaid' signifies the affection of rational and scientific things. 'A handmaid,' as mentioned in Genesis 30:3, signifies the affirming medium of conjoining inner truths...
saras
'Sarah' denotes truth joined to good. Sarai was called 'Sarah' so she would represent the divine intellectual principle by adding the 'H' from the name...
geboren
In einem allgemeinen Sinne stellt das "Geborenwerden" in der Bibel einen spirituellen Zustand dar, der einen anderen hervorbringt, in der Regel eine Form von Liebe...
Nebajoth
'Nebaioth,' as in Genesis 28, denotes good of the spiritual church.
kedar
'Kedar' or 'Arabia' signifies spiritual good. Kedar' denotes people of the Gentiles who are in simple truth. 'Arabia' signifies the same thing.
Mibsam
'Mibsam' means things pertaining to the spiritual church.
tema
'Tema' represents aspects of the spiritual church among the Gentiles.
jetur
Jetur' represents the spiritual church among the gentiles.
Ägypten
In der Bibel bedeutet Ägypten Wissen und die Liebe zur Erkenntnis. In einem guten Sinn bedeutet das Wissen über die Wahrheit vom Herrn durch die...
Brüder
Es gibt zwei Arten, wie "Bruder" in der Bibel verwendet wird, die sich auch im modernen Sprachgebrauch wiederfinden. Die eine bezeichnet eine tatsächliche Blutsverwandtschaft; die...
isaaks
'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...
vierzig
'Forty' means completeness because 'four' means what is complete, as does 'ten.' Forty is the product of four and ten. Compound numbers have a meaning...
alt
Swedenborg tells us that space and time in the physical world correspond to states of life in the spiritual world. So when the Bible talks...
ebekka
'Rebecca,' as in Genesis 24, signifies divine truth which would be joined to divine good of the Lord’s rational mind, which is 'Isaac.'
tochter
Marriages among people – both in the Bible and in life – represent spiritual marriage. Women represent the desire to be good and to do...
schwester
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...
labans
'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...
jehova
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...
unfruchtbar
"Sarai was barren, she had no child" (Gen 11:30), signifies that evil and falsity were not productive.
Kinder
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....
sprach
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...
zwei
The number "two" has two different meanings in the Bible. In most cases "two" indicates a joining together or unification. This is easy to see...
Nationen
'A nation,' as in Genesis 21:18, signifies the spiritual church which should receive the good of faith. Nation from afar,' as in Jeremiah 5:17, signifies...
Dienen
Generally speaking, those who are at lower levels of an organization serve those at higher levels. Bosses boss and their employees serve; coaches devise strategy...
erfüllt
Gefüllt sein" bedeutet, mit einer geistigen Qualität ausgestattet zu sein. Wenn das betreffende Material gut ist - Wasser, Nahrung, Menschen, die Gutes repräsentieren, usw. -...
Zwillinge
'Twins in the womb,' as in Genesis 25:24, signifies that both good and truth, represented by Esau and Jacob, were conceived together.
esau
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.
Bruder
Es gibt zwei Arten, wie "Bruder" in der Bibel verwendet wird, die sich auch im modernen Sprachgebrauch wiederfinden. Die eine bezeichnet eine tatsächliche Blutsverwandtschaft; die...
hand
Scientists believe that one of the most crucial developments in the evolution of humans was bipedalism – walking on two legs. That left our hands...
esaus
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.
jakob
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...
sechzig
'Sixty' means the full time and state of the implantation of truth in our minds.
wurden
Gebären oder gezeugt werden ist in seiner Bedeutung der Geburt sehr ähnlich: Es repräsentiert einen geistigen Zustand, der zum nächsten geistigen Zustand führt. "Beget" ist...
Mann
In general, men are driven by intellect and women by affections, and because of this men in the Bible generally represent knowledge and truth and...
kam
As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “come” in the Bible is highly dependent on context – its meaning is determined largely by...
edom
'Edom' or 'Idumea,' as in Isaiah 34:5, signifies those who are in evil and in falsities thence derived.
heute
The expression 'even to this day' or 'today' sometimes appears in the Word, as in Genesis 19:37-38, 22:14, 26:33, 32:32, 35:20, and 47:26. In a...
sterben
Dead (Gen. 23:8) signifies night, in respect to the goodnesses and truths of faith.
brot
So wie die natürliche Nahrung den natürlichen Körper ernährt, so ernährt die geistige Nahrung den geistigen Körper. Und da unser geistiger Körper der Ausdruck dessen...
linsen
'Lentils' signify the less noble types of good.
aß
Wenn wir essen, baut unser Körper die Nahrung auf und gewinnt daraus sowohl Energie als auch Materialien für den Aufbau und die Reparatur des Körpers....
stand auf
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...
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