יהוה
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...
אחד
A company might have executives setting policy and strategy, engineers designing products, line workers building them, managers handling personnel and others handling various functions. They...
פרעה
'Pharaoh' signifies scientific ideas, or the natural principle in general. 'Pharaoh' signifies false ideas infesting the truth of the church. Pharaoh,' in Genesis 40, represents...
מצרים
Egyptians represent those who are in natural science, thus the natural, but the Hebrews, those who are of the church, thus respectively the spiritual. The...
איש
The relationship between men and women is deep and nuanced, and one entire book of the Writings – Conjugial Love or Love in Marriage –...
כסף
'Money' relates to truth.
זהב
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...
גדול
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;...
אמר
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...
בתוך
The "midst" of something in the Bible represents the thing that is most central and most important to the spiritual state being described, the motivation...
בכור
When the Bible talks about generations or birth order, the internal meaning has to do with the progression of spiritual states and their relative importance....
בהמה
"Beasts" represent the affection for doing good things, a true desire to do them from the heart. In the negative sense, "beasts" stand for the...
ארץ
Land' in the Word, denotes the church, for the things which signify the church also signify the things relating to the church, for these constitute...
ישראל
'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...
כלב
A dog, as in Exodus 11 (Exod. 11:7: seven, ignifies the lowest or meanest of all in the church, also those who are without the...
אף
'A blast of the breath of the nostrils' signify the same thing as 'his anger and wrath.'
לפני
In most cases, the meaning of "before" is pretty straightforward, both as a way of assessing relative time, and in its use meaning "in someone's...
לב
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...
שלח
'To send' signifies revealing.
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