In Genesis 26, the well signifies that people who were in the mere worldly knowledge of truths of faith were unwilling to make the internal nature of the Divine more well-known. (Arcana Coelestia 3412)

Broken cisterns in Jeremiah 2:13 signify false doctrines.

In Deuteronomy 6:11, cisterns hewn out signify the interiors of the natural mind–full of knowledge of good and truth. (Apocalypse Explained 617[13])

(Mga Sanggunian: Arcana Coelestia 2702 [1-17])