21 Bible Verses about Meaning

And the people said to me, Will you not make clear to us the sense of these things; is it for us you do them?

So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?

And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?

For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.

Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon;

And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?

And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.

And the Philistines, hearing the noise of their cry, said, What is this great cry among the tents of the Hebrews? Then it became clear to them that the ark of the Lord had come to the tent-circle.

And Eli, hearing the noise and the cries, said, What is the reason of this outcry? And the man came quickly and gave the news to Eli.

Then it was my desire to have certain knowledge about the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, a cause of great fear, whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass; who took his food, crushing some of it to bits and stamping on the rest with his feet;

And his disciples put questions to him about the point of the story.

What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

So they said again and again, What is this he is saying, A little time? His words are not clear to us.

And they were all surprised and in doubt saying to one another, What is the reason of this?

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, that is, Dorcas: this woman was given to good works and acts of mercy at all times.

But Elymas, the wonder-worker (for that is the sense of his name), put himself against them, with the purpose of turning the ruler from the faith.

There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.

But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.