'Waters' particularly signify the spiritual parts of a person, or the intellectual aspects of faith, and also their opposites.

'The waters above the firmament,' as in Genesis 1:7, signify the knowledges in the internal self, and 'the waters beneath the firmament' signify the knowledges of the external self.

'Waters,' as in Ezekiel 47:9, refer to the New Jerusalem, and they signify spiritual things from a celestial origin.

'Many waters,' as in Revelation 17:1, signify truths of the Word adulterated. 'Waters' or 'rivers' signify spiritual, rational, or scientific things pertaining to truth.

'Waters … that go softly,' as in Isaiah 8:6-7, signify spiritual things, and 'waters … strong and many,' signify falsities.

'Waters,' as in Psalms 104:3, signify divine truths.

'Waters' signify truths in the natural self, and in the opposite sense, falsities.

'The waters were dried up from off the earth,' as in Genesis 8:7, signifies the apparent dissipation of falsities.

(Odkazy: Apocalypse Explained 17; Apocalypse Revealed 50; Genesis 8)

6783. 'And he said, Why have you hastened to come today?' means a perception that now it was a certain joining together. This is clear from the meaning of 'said', in the historical narratives of the Word, as perception, dealt with often; and from the meaning of 'hastening to come' as a certain joining together. For the meaning of 'hastening' as certainty, see 5284, and for 'coming' as a joining together, immediately above in 6782. What is meant here is not a certain joining together that was effected through the daughters' hastening to come to their father but one that was effected through truth that the law from God possessed, represented by 'Moses'. This is what was perceived.