abraão
Abraão (ou Abrão, como é chamado no início da sua história) é um dos personagens principais da história da Sagrada Escritura. Ele foi o ancestral...
Terra
"Terra" na Bíblia pode significar uma pessoa ou um grupo de pessoas que pensam da mesma maneira como numa igreja. Mas refere-se especificamente ao exterior...
habitou
'Inhabit' refers to good.
cades
'Kadesh' denotes truths, and contention about truths.
gerar
Gerar, as in Genesis 10:19, signifies those things which are revealed concerning faith.
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...
mulher
'Women,' as in Genesis 45:19, signify the affections of truth. But in Genesis 31:50, 'women' signify affections of not genuine truth, so not of the...
irmã
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...
abimeleque
Abimelech, his companion Ahusath, and Phicol, the chief captain of his army (Genesis 26:26), represent the doctrinals of faith as grounded in the literal sense...
rei
The human mind is composed of two parts, a will and an understanding, a seat of loves and affections, and a seat of wisdom and...
Deus
O Senhor é o próprio amor, expresso na forma da própria sabedoria. O amor, então, é a sua essência, o seu íntimo. A sabedoria -...
veio
As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “come” in the Bible is highly dependent on context – its meaning is determined largely by...
sonhos
A dream, as in Genesis 20:3,signifies being somewhat obscure.
noite
The sun in the Bible represents the Lord, with its heat representing His love and its light representing His wisdom. “Daytime,” then, represents a state...
disse
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...
morrer
Dead (Gen. 23:8) signifies night, in respect to the goodnesses and truths of faith.
Nação
'Nations' signify people who are in the good of love and charity from the Lord. Two nations in the womb,' as in Genesis 25:23, signify...
irmão
Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
marido
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...
profeta
The idea of a "prophet" is very closely tied to the idea of the Bible itself, since the Bible was largely written by prophets. At...
sabe
Like so many common verbs, the meaning of "know" in the Bible is varied and dependent on context. And in some cases – when it...
levantou-se
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...
manhã
Morning comes with the rising of the sun, and the sun – which gives life to the earth with its warmth and light – represents...
cedo
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...
chamando
To call someone or summon someone in the Bible represents a desire for conjunction between higher and lower states of life. For instance, imagine someone...
palavras
'Word,' as in Psalms 119:6-17, stands for doctrine in general. 'The Word,' as in Psalms 147:18, signifies divine good united with divine truth. 'Word,' as...
chamou
To call someone or summon someone in the Bible represents a desire for conjunction between higher and lower states of life. For instance, imagine someone...
nos
Angels do give us guidance, but they are mere helpers; the Lord alone governs us, through angels and spirits. Since angels have their assisting role,...
filha
Marriages among people – both in the Bible and in life – represent spiritual marriage. Women represent the desire to be good and to do...
pai
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...
mãe
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...
casa
A "house" is essentially a container - for a person, for a family, for several families or even for a large group with shared interests...
servas
“Servant” literally means “a person who serves another,"" and its meaning is similar in reference to the spiritual meaninngs of the Bible. Our lives in...
habita
'Inhabit' refers to good.
dado
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...
mil
As children, most of us at some point frustrated our mothers into using the phrase “if I've told you once, I've told you a thousand...
prata
'Money' relates to truth.
olhos
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...
senhor
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...
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