'Words,' as in Exodus 34:28, signify everything pertaining to doctrine.

In Genesis 15:1, words signify revelation, after the Lord's boyhood combats. (Arcana Coelestia 1787)

Words signify things, and things are goods and truths. (Arcana Coelestia 1785, 1801, 5272)

In Genesis 11:1, this signifies unity of doctrine. (Arcana Coelestia 1288)

In Exodus 8:10, 13, words signify communication of the Lord's Word and confirmation. (Arcana Coelestia 7406)

In Exodus 20:1, this signifies divine truths for people who are in the heavens and on earth. (Arcana Coelestia 8861, 8862)

1785. That 'after these events' the word of Jehovah came to Abram in a vision' means that after the conflicts in childhood revelation followed is clear from the meaning of 'words', and also of 'the word of Jehovah to Abram', as well as from the meaning of 'a vision'. The expression 'words' in the Hebrew language means real things, in this case the things that have been completed, namely the Lord's conflicts brought about by the temptations which were described in the previous chapter. 'The word of Jehovah to Abram' is nothing other than the word which the Lord had within Himself. In childhood however and during the conflicts that came with temptations, when [His Human and Divine] Essences were not yet united as one, that word was unable to be seen as anything else than a revelation. That which is internal, when acting into that which is external, in a state and at moments when the latter is more remote, cannot manifest itself in any other way. This is the state that is called the Lord's state of humiliation.