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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...
กล่าว
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...
กล่าวว่า
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...
เจ้า
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...
ชาย
The relationship between men and women is deep and nuanced, and one entire book of the Writings – Conjugial Love or Love in Marriage –...
พระ
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...
เยโฮวาห์
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...
คนเลี้ยงแกะ
The Writings tell us that shepherds represent those who lead and teach others, using knowledge and true ideas to help people reach the goodness of...
แกะ
A flock, as in Genesis 26, denotes interior or rational good. A flock signifies those who are in spiritual good. A flock signifies natural interior...
มา
As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “come” in the Bible is highly dependent on context – its meaning is determined largely by...
วันหนึ่ง
"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...
วัน
The expression 'even to this day' or 'today' sometimes appears in the Word, as in Genesis 19:37-38, 22:14, 26:33, 32:32, 35:20, and 47:26. In a...
นำ
As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “bring” is highly dependent on context, but in general it represents an introduction to a new...
ผลไม้
We tend to think of "fruit" in two ways in natural language. One is as food that grows on trees and vines, sweet and delicious,...
ฝูง
A flock, as in Genesis 26, denotes interior or rational good. A flock signifies those who are in spiritual good. A flock signifies natural interior...
บาป
In the Word three terms are used to mean bad things that are done. These three are transgression, iniquity, and sin, and they are here...
ประตู
In a general sense, doors in the Bible represent the initial desires for good and concepts of truth that introduce people to new levels of...
พูด
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...
ลุกขึ้น
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...
ฆ่า
'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...
ทราบ
Like so many common verbs, the meaning of "know" in the Bible is varied and dependent on context. And in some cases – when it...
ผู้ดูแล
"Keeping" in the Bible generally has to do with controlling the actual actions of life, though in some cases it can mean holding something away...
ตรัสว่า
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...
ปาก
In most cases, "mouth" in the Bible represents thought and logic, especially the kind of active, concrete thought that is connected with speech. The reason...
มือ
Scientists believe that one of the most crucial developments in the evolution of humans was bipedalism – walking on two legs. That left our hands...
ร่อนเร่
'To be a vagabond' is to have no knowledge of truth and good.
โลก
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...
พื้น
Is there any difference in meaning between “earth” and “ground”? At first it doesn’t seem so; both refer to the soil making up the land...
ซ่อน
'To hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains,' as mentioned in Revelation 6:15, signifies being in evils and in falsities...
พบ
Finding, or being found, can have different meanings in the Word, depending on the context. Here are two examples, From Arcana Coelestia 5756, 'Behold, the...
อาศัยอยู่
Inhabitants,' in Isaiah 26:9, signify the men of the church who are in good of doctrine, and thence in the good of life.
ด้าน
'Side' signifies good or spiritual love.
ชื่อ
It's easy to see that names are important in the Bible. Jehovah changed Abram and Sarai to Abraham and Sarah, changed Jacob to Israel and...
สร้าง
To build something generally means to put together a variety of simpler pieces to make a useful and more complex structure, as to build a...
เมือง
In the ancient world cities were very nearly nations unto themselves – they existed within walls, with their own laws and customs, generally centered on...
บุตรชายของ
'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...
บุตรชาย
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....
ให้กำเนิดบุตร
To beget or to be begotten is very similar in meaning to birth: It represents one spiritual state leading to the next spiritual state. "Beget,"...
ให้กำเนิด
To beget or to be begotten is very similar in meaning to birth: It represents one spiritual state leading to the next spiritual state. "Beget,"...
กำเนิด
To beget or to be begotten is very similar in meaning to birth: It represents one spiritual state leading to the next spiritual state. "Beget,"...
ลาเมค
Lamech,' as in Genesis 4:18, signifies the vastation of the church when there was no longer any faith. Lamech,' as in Genesis 5:25, signifies the...
สอง
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...
หนึ่ง
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...
ดาห์
Adah, Lamech's wife, (Genesis 4:9), represents the mother of the celestial things of faith.
คนที่อาศัยอยู่
Inhabitants,' in Isaiah 26:9, signify the men of the church who are in good of doctrine, and thence in the good of life.
ที่อาศัยอยู่
'Inhabit' refers to good.
เต็นท์
'The tabernacle' has almost the same meaning as 'temple,' that is, in the highest sense, the Lord’s divine humanity, and in a relative sense, heaven...
ทองสัมฤทธิ์
Brass and iron as in Isaiah 48:4 and Daniel 7:19 signify what is hard.
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Brass and iron as in Isaiah 48:4 and Daniel 7:19 signify what is hard.
น้องสาว
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...
ฟัง
Thanks to modern science, we now understand that hearing actually happens in the brain, not the ears. The ears collect vibrations in the air and...
เจ็ด
The number 'seven' was considered holy, as is well known, because of the six days of creation, and the seventh, which is the celestial self,...
เจ็ดเท่า
The number 'seven' was considered holy, as is well known, because of the six days of creation, and the seventh, which is the celestial self,...
เจ็ดสิบเจ็ดเท่า
'To be avenged seventy and seven fold' denotes damnation.
สิบเจ็ด
'Seventeen' signifies both the beginning and the end of temptation, because it is made up of the numbers seven and ten. This number, when it...
อาดัม
Adam is one of the most crucial and most controversial figures in the Bible, dividing even the faithful into camps: those who believe he literally...
พระเจ้า
The Lord is called "Jehovah" in the Bible when the text is referring to his essence, which is love itself. He is called "God" when...
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