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As with common verbs in general, the meaning of “come” in the Bible is highly dependent on context – its meaning is determined largely by...
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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....
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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...
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'Spies,' as in Genesis 42:9, denote people who learn the church's truth only for gain.
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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...
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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...
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To look,' as in Genesis 18:22, signifies thinking, because seeing denotes understanding. Look not back behind thee,' as in Genesis 19:17, means that Lot, who...
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Jericho' signifies instruction and also the good of life because no one can be instructed in the truths of doctrine but he who is in...
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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...
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'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...
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'A harlot' signifies the affection of falsities, thus the church corrupted.
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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...
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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...
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'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...
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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...
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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...
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In every instance, however, 'being sent' means coming forth, (or going forth), in the internal sense, as in John 17:8. In similar manner, it is...
บ้าน
A "house" is essentially a container - for a person, for a family, for several families or even for a large group with shared interests...
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...
ปิด
There are only a couple of references in the Writings to "close" used as a verb, and both stem from Amos 9:11, which talks about...
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"Gates" in ancient times had a significance that does not hold in the modern world. Cities then were enclosed by walls for protection; gates in...
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'A house-top,' as mentioned in Matthew 24:13, signifies the superior state of a person, and consequently, his state as to good.
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'To pursue,' as in Genesis 14:16, signifies a state of purification, because 'to pursue enemies' is the expulsion of evils and falsities which were with...
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'To set a way,' as in Genesis 30:36, signifies being separated.
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The river Jordan separates the land of Canaan from the lands to the east. This separation represents the division of the human mind into an internal...
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The land of Jordan,' as in Psalm 42:6, signifies what is lowly, consequently, what is distant from the celestial, as the external parts of a...
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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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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...
ประทาน
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...
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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...
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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,...
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'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...
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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,...
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'Withering and drying up,' as in Ezekiel 17:10, referring to the east wind, signifies when there is no good or truth.
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In the Bible, Egypt means knowledge and the love of knowledge. In a good sense that means knowledge of truth from the Lord through the...
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'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...
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'To melt' denotes vanishing before the heat of lust.
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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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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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"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...
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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...
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'To sware' is a binding.
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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...
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In regular language, "mercy" means being caring and compassionate toward those who are in poor states. That's a position we are all in relative to...
เมตตา
In regular language, "mercy" means being caring and compassionate toward those who are in poor states. That's a position we are all in relative to...
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'Shew' signifies instruction to the life.
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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...
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Brethren (Gen. 27:29) signify the affections of good.
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Rope or cord denotes conjunction.
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"Down" is used many different ways in natural language, and its spiritual meaning in the Bible is highly dependent on context. Phrases like "bowing down,"...
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'Window' signifies truth in the light.
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'A wall' signifies truth in outer extremes. 'A wall,' as in Revelation 21, signifies the divine truth proceeding from the Lord, and so, the truth...
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Inhabitants,' in Isaiah 26:9, signify the men of the church who are in good of doctrine, and thence in the good of life.
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'Hills' signify the good of charity.
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In natural language, to "meet" someone can be positive or negative: it can be a welcoming and greeting, or it can be "meeting" them in...
สาม
The Writings talk about many aspects of life using the philosophical terms "end," "cause" and "effect." The "end" is someone’s goal or purpose, the ultimate...
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"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...
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There are many instances in the Bible which describe people turning back, looking back or going back. In most cases it is a negative, sometimes...
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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...
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To gather, as in Genesis 6:21, refers to those things which are in the memory of man, where they are gathered. It also implies that...
ครัวเรือน
A "house" is essentially a container - for a person, for a family, for several families or even for a large group with shared interests...
ถนน
The phrase 'in the streets and synagogues' in Matthew 6:2, 5, and Luke 8:26-27, refers to a representative rite amongst the Jews to teach in...
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...
คำ
'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...
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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...
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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....
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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...