ဘုရား
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...
ပြ
'Shew' signifies instruction to the life.
မြင်
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...
မြည်
To howl' signifies grief caused by vastation.
မြည်တမ်းကြ
To howl' signifies grief caused by vastation.
လ
'A month' has respect to the state of truth in a person. 'A month' signifies a full state. Month,' as in Genesis 29, signifies the...
ဥပုသ်နေ့
In Exodus 31:13, 'verily my Sabbaths ye shall keep,' signifies continuous holy thought about the union of the Lord’s divine with His human.
ချိန်ခွင်
The balances mentioned in Revelation 6:5 signify the estimation of goodness and truth.
ဆင်းရဲသော
In most cases, those described as "needy" in the Bible are those who lack true knowledge of the Lord and his teachings, but have a...
ငွေ
'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,...
ခြေနင်း
In the Word, 'the sole of the foot' and 'the heel' signifies the ultimate natural. 'The shoe' is what clothes the sole of the foot...
ပြည်
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...
နားထောင်
'To hearken to father and mother,' as mentioned in Genesis 28:7, signifies obedience from affection. 'To hearken,' as mentioned in Genesis 30:22, signifies providence. See...
ယာကုပ်၏
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...
ယာကုပ်
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...
ကျိန်ဆို
'To sware' is a binding.
မေ့လျော့
To forget, in the internal sense, signifies nothing else but removal and apparent privation.
မေ့
To forget, in the internal sense, signifies nothing else but removal and apparent privation.
ထ
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...
မြေ
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...
နေ
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...
ဝင်
All changes of place in the Bible represent changes in spiritual state. “Entering” – usually used as entering someone’s house or “going in unto” someone...
နေ့
"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...
သီချင်း
In the ancient and Jewish churches, 'songs' were prophesies about the Lord, especially His coming in the world, subjugation of the diabolical spirits, and liberation...
ငိုကြွေး
The children of Israel represent 'lamentation' by various things which signified some evil of the church among them for which they were punished. When they...
ပေါင်း
To 'take the sum of the sons of Israel,' as in Exodus 30:12, signifies the whole church.
ခါးကို
'Loins' in general, signify love, and when referring to the Lord, divine love. 'Loins' signify the interiors of conjugial love. Loins,' as in Isaiah 11:5,...
ခါး
'Loins' in general, signify love, and when referring to the Lord, divine love. 'Loins' signify the interiors of conjugial love. Loins,' as in Isaiah 11:5,...
ဆံပင်ကိုရိတ်
'A bald head' signifies the Word deprived of the natural sense, which is the sense of the letter.
ရိတ်
'A bald head' signifies the Word deprived of the natural sense, which is the sense of the letter.
မြည်တမ်းခြင်း
The children of Israel represent 'lamentation' by various things which signified some evil of the church among them for which they were punished. When they...
မြည်တမ်း
The children of Israel represent 'lamentation' by various things which signified some evil of the church among them for which they were punished. When they...
ရေ
'Waters' signify truths in the natural self, and in the opposite sense, falsities. 'Waters' signify particularly the spiritual parts of a person, or the intellectual...
အစာ
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...
ကြား
'To hearken to father and mother,' as mentioned in Genesis 28:7, signifies obedience from affection. 'To hearken,' as mentioned in Genesis 30:22, signifies providence. See...
ရှာ
The meaning of "to seek" in the Bible is pretty straightforward, but there is a bit of nuance: Swedenborg tells us that in most cases...
ပင်လယ်
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,...
ကညာ
A ‘virgin’ in the Word means those who are in the Lord’s kingdom. –Secrets of Heaven 3081...
ရှမာရိ
'Samaria,' as in Amos 4:1. 6:1, signifies the spiritual church perverted.
ကျ
Like other common verbs, the meaning of "fall" is highly dependent on context in regular language, and is highly dependent on context in a spiritual...
ဒန်
The tribe of Dan (Jer. 8:16) signifies truth in its own ultimate degree of order, here truth in the church, which is contained in the...