'Mean' in the Bible

So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession I met?”“To find favor with you, my lord,” he answered.

Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven ripe heads are seven years. The dreams mean the same thing.

When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you?’

“In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘By the strength of His hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

so that this will be a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

You love your enemies and hate those who love you! Today you have made it clear that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. In fact, today I know that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would be fine with you!

“Now say to that rebellious house: Don’t you know what these things mean? Tell them: The king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.

“What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel:The fathers eat sour grapes,and the children’s teeth are set on edge?

Then the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?”

When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you explain to us what you mean by these things?’—

He answered them, “Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.

He answered them, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those outside, everything comes in parables

Then His disciples asked Him, “What does this parable mean?”

While Peter was deeply perplexed about what the vision he had seen might mean, the men who had been sent by Cornelius, having asked directions to Simon’s house, stood at the gate.

For what you say sounds strange to us, and we want to know what these ideas mean.”

For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience?

For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.

But what does “He ascended” mean except that He descended to the lower parts of the earth?