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...
သား
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....
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...
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...
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...
ရုဗင်
'Reuben,' in the highest sense, signifies omniscience. In a spiritual sense, he signifies wisdom, intelligence, science, and faith. In a natural sense, he signifies sight....
အစ
In the Word, "beginning" doesn't just mean the beginning of something in time. In the inner sense, it means the initial phase of a spiritual...
ခွန်အား
'Might' denotes the forces or power of truth.
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...
အိပ်ရာ
A bed of ivory (Amos 6:4) are doctrines apparently from rational truths.
ရှိမောင်
In Revelation 7, 'Simeon', in the highest sense, signifies providence, in a spiritual sense, love towards our neighbor, or charity, and in a natural sense,...
လေဝိ
'Levi' signifies truth in practice, which is the good of life. 'Levi,' in the highest sense, signifies love and mercy, in a spiritual sense, he...
လေဝိသည်
'Levi' signifies truth in practice, which is the good of life. 'Levi,' in the highest sense, signifies love and mercy, in a spiritual sense, he...
အစ်ကို
Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
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...
အမျက်ထွက်
'Wrath,' as in Genesis 49:7, signifies aversion from truth. 'Great wrath,' as in Revelation 12:12, signifies hatred against the new church.
လူ
The relationship between men and women is deep and nuanced, and one entire book of the Writings – Conjugial Love or Love in Marriage –...
သတ်
'To slay a man to his wounding,' means extinguishing faith, and 'to slay a young man to his hurt,' signifies extinguishing charity, as in Genesis...
ယုဒ
City of Judah,' as in Isaiah 40:9, signifies the doctrine of love towards the Lord and love towards our neighbor in its whole extent.
ညီအစ်ကိုတို့
Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
လက်
Scientists believe that one of the most crucial developments in the evolution of humans was bipedalism – walking on two legs. That left our hands...
ရန်သူ
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...
ခြင်္သေ့
'A lion' signifies the good of celestial love and the truth from that good.
မြည်း
Donkeys signify the things relating to the self-intelligence of the sensual man; and camels, the things of self-intelligence in the natural man (Isa 30:6, 7.)
မြည်းက
Donkeys signify the things relating to the self-intelligence of the sensual man; and camels, the things of self-intelligence in the natural man (Isa 30:6, 7.)
ကလေး
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....
ချည်နှောင်
Being bound, as in Genesis 42:16, denotes to be separated, for he who is kept b. is separated, viz., from the spiritual good, which is...
အဝတ်
Soft raiment,' as in Matthew 11:9, represents the internal sense of the Word.
သွေး
Bloods signify evil, in Ezek. 16:9.
မျက်စိ
It’s common to say “I see” when we understand something. And indeed, “seeing” in the Bible represents grasping and understanding spiritual things. So it makes...
သွား
'Tooth,' as in Exodus 21:24, denotes the exterior understanding, and natural truth.
နို့
Water represents true ideas about day-to-day life, and other drinks and liquids in general represent different forms of truth. Milk is a drink that contains...
ဖြူ
'White' relates to truths, because it originates in the light of the sun.
ဣသခါ
Issachar,' in the highest sense, signifies the divine good of truth, and truth of good. In a spiritual sense, he signifies celestial conjugial love, which...
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...
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...
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...
လမ်း
'To set a way,' as in Genesis 30:36, signifies being separated.
မြွေ
Serpents in the Bible represent reasoning that is based on what we know through our senses. This is the lowest and most outward mode of...
မြင်း
'A horse' signifies knowledges or understanding of the Word. In an opposite sense it signifies the understanding of the Word falsified by reasonings, and likewise...
အိုထာဝရဘုရား၊
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...
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...
ဂဒ်
Gad, in a supreme sense, signifies omnipotence; in a spiritual sense, the good of life, or use; and in a natural sense, works. Gad, in...
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...
ပေး
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...
နဿလိ
'Naphtali' in a supreme sense, signifies the proper power of the Lord’s divine human. In a spiritual sense, he signifies temptation and victory and a...
ယောသပ်
Joseph, Jacob’s eleventh son, is one of the favorite characters in the Bible, with his troubles, his triumphs over them, and his constant trust in...
ယောသပ်သည်
Joseph, Jacob’s eleventh son, is one of the favorite characters in the Bible, with his troubles, his triumphs over them, and his constant trust in...
လေး
A bow signifies falsity of doctrine destroying truth, and spear, the falsity of evil destroying good. (Jer. 6:23.)
လက်နက်
Arms and feet (Daniel 10:6) signify the exterior things of the Word, which are its literal sense.
ဣသရေလအမျိုး၏
'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...
ကောင်းကြီးပေး
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...
ကောင်းကင်
Heavens are celestial and spiritual things. Consequently, they are inmost things, both of the Lord's kingdom in heaven the and in the earth. This also...
မင်္ဂလာ
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...
ဝမ်း
'Womb,' as in Genesis 49:25, signifies the conjunction of good and truth. The term 'belly' is used where truths are being discussed, and the term...
ထာဝရ
'Perpetual' in the literal sense, means to the end of one’s life, after death, and eternity.
ကိုက်စား
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...
နံနက်
Morning comes with the rising of the sun, and the sun – which gives life to the earth with its warmth and light – represents...
နှစ်
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...
စကား
Like "say," the word "speak" refers to thoughts and feelings moving from our more internal spiritual levels to our more external ones – and ultimately...
ဟိတ္တိ
'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...
က
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,...
ခါနာန်
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...
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...
ရှေ့မှာ
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...
အာဗြဟံ
Abraham (or Abram, as he is named in the beginning of his story) was the ancestor of all the Children of Israel, through his son...
အာဗြဟံသည်
Abraham (or Abram, as he is named in the beginning of his story) was the ancestor of all the Children of Israel, through his son...
သင်္ချိုင်း
A grave, as in Psalm 88:5, signifies hell. ‘To come forth out of the grave,’ as in John 5:29, signifies to come forth out of...
ဧဖရုန်
Ephron (Gen. 23:8, 17) signifies those with whom the good and truth of faith, which are the constituents of the church, might be received.
မယား
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...
စာရာ
'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...
ရေဗက္က
'Rebecca,' as in Genesis 24, signifies divine truth which would be joined to divine good of the Lord’s rational mind, which is 'Isaac.'
ခြေ
The foot, as in Deuteronomy 33:3, signifies an inferior principle. To set the right foot on the sea and the left on the earth, as...
ပေ
The foot, as in Deuteronomy 33:3, signifies an inferior principle. To set the right foot on the sea and the left on the earth, as...
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