Rey
La mente humana se compone de dos partes, una voluntad y un entendimiento, sede de los amores y afectos, y una sede de la sabiduría...
Quedorlaomer
Chedorlaomer, the king mentioned in Genesis 14:4, 5, denotes apparent good and truth in the Lord's external man. Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, signifies truths; and...
Elam
Elam, mentioned in Isaiah 21:1, signifies faith originating in charity, consequently, the internal church. Elam, in Jeremiah 49:34, signifies the falsification of doctrine. In Jeremiah...
gentiles
'The time of the heathen,' as mentioned in Ezekiel 30:3, signifies the heathen, or wickedness.
guerra
La guerra en la palabra representa el combate de la tentación cuando lo que es bueno es asaltado por lo que es malo o falso....
Sodoma
"Sodom" in the Bible represents the love of self and the love of ruling or dominating others springing from the love of self. This is...
Zoar
Zoar, una ciudad mencionada en Génesis 13:10significa el afecto de la bondad. Zoar estaba situada no muy lejos de Sodoma; Lot huyó allí después de...
Valle
Mountains in the Bible represent people's highest points, where we are closest to the Lord - our love of the Lord and the state of...
mar
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,...
salado
'Salt' is the desire of conjunction of truth with good, which is why only salt will conjoin water, which corresponds to truth, and oil, which...
decimocuarto
Fourteen, as in Genesis 31:40, signifies a first period of time. The fourteenth year, as in Genesis 14:5, signifies the first temptation of the Lord...
vino
As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “come” in the Bible is highly dependent on context – its meaning is determined largely by...
reyes
La mente humana se compone de dos partes, una voluntad y un entendimiento, sede de los amores y afectos, y una sede de la sabiduría...
monte
The Writings tell us that the Lord's love is the sun of heaven, and it is natural for us to look above ourselves to the...
Seir
'Seir,' as in Genesis 33:14, signifies the conjunction of spiritual and celestial things in the natural level, that is, the truth of faith with the...
Desierto
'Wilderness' signifies something with little life in it, as described in the internal sense in Luke 1:80 'Wilderness' signifies somewhere there is no good because...
cades
'Kadesh' denotes truths, and contention about truths.
batalla
La guerra en la palabra representa el combate de la tentación cuando lo que es bueno es asaltado por lo que es malo o falso....
cuatro
El número "cuatro" en la Biblia representa que las cosas están vinculadas o unidas. Esto se debe, en parte, a que el cuatro es dos...
Cinco
Fifteen, as in Genesis 7:20, signifies so few as to be scarce anything.
lleno
'To satiate' relates to the extent of a person's will, for good or evil.
pozos
'A well,' as in Numbers 21:17-18, signifies the Word of the ancient church. 'A well,' or 'pit,' as in Luke 14:5, signifies falsity and the...
Hijo
'A son,' as in Genesis 5:28, signifies the rise of a new church. 'Son,' as in Genesis 24:3, signifies the Lord’s rationality regarding good. 'A...
Hermano
Hay dos formas de utilizar "hermano" en la Biblia, formas que todavía se reflejan en el lenguaje moderno. Una denota una relación sanguínea real; la...
Abram
Abram represents different spiritual things, as his story develops. When he is first mentioned, Abram, with his brothers Nahor and Haran, are listed as the...
hebreo
The term 'Hebrew' is used in the Word to signify anything relating to service, whatever its nature may be. Hence Abraham, in one passage only...
Mamre
Mamre was an Amorite who lived in the land of Canaan, in the area called Hebron in what would much later be the kingdom of...
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...
Dan
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...
Noche
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...
siervos
“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...
Damasco
Damascus and Aroer (Isaiah 17:1, 2) signify the knowledges of truth and good. See Eliezer of Damascus.
bienes
Los "bienes" que la gente tiene en la Biblia -sus posesiones- representan las posesiones espirituales, que son los deseos de ser buenos y el conocimiento...
mujeres
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...
Herir
'The smitten' signify people who are oppressed by the falsities of ignorance.
Melquisedec
'Melchizedek' signifies the celestial parts of the interior self with the Lord. 'Melchizedek, a priest and king in one person,' represents the divine humanity of...
Salem
'Salem' signifies a state of peace and perfection, or the tranquility of peace. 'Salem,' as in Psalm 76:3, signifies the Lord’s spiritual kingdom where there...
pan
Así como el alimento natural alimenta el cuerpo natural, el alimento espiritual alimenta el cuerpo espiritual. Y como nuestro cuerpo espiritual es la expresión de...
Alto
'Height' signifies what is inward, and also heaven.
dijo
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...
bendito
El Señor es el amor perfecto expresado como la sabiduría perfecta. Él nos creó para poder amarnos, para darnos amor y sabiduría propia, y así...
los cielos
"Heaven" and "heavens" are used many times in the Bible, with a couple of variations of meaning. Sometimes it is relatively literal, including times when...
Cielos
"Heaven" and "heavens" are used many times in the Bible, with a couple of variations of meaning. Sometimes it is relatively literal, including times when...
la tierra
"Tierra" en la Biblia puede significar una persona o un grupo de personas con ideas afines como en una iglesia. Pero se refiere específicamente a...
Tierra
¿Hay alguna diferencia de significado entre "tierra" y "suelo"? En principio no lo parece; ambos se refieren al suelo que compone la masa terrestre del...
Enemigos
Foes, or adversaries, denote the falsities of evil. Foes, or adversaries, when predicate of the Lord, signifies to avert falsities derived from evil.
mano
Scientists believe that one of the most crucial developments in the evolution of humans was bipedalism – walking on two legs. That left our hands...
diezmos
'Tithes,' as in tenths, signifies goods and truths stored up from the Lord in a person’s interior self. These goods are called remains. When these...
señor
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...
zapato
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...
jóvenes
"Youths" or "Young men" generally represent intelligence or the understanding of truth. This is fitting, since adolescent boys tend to be more advanced intellectually than...
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