'Mean' in the Bible

When your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?' --

Help me to understand what your precepts mean! Then I can meditate on your marvelous teachings.

How can you say, "We are wise! We have the law of the Lord"? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.

"Go and tell Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, 'The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, "I will carry out against this city what I promised. It will mean disaster and not good fortune for it. When that disaster happens, you will be there to see it.

"Say to the rebellious house of Israel: 'Don't you know what these things mean?' Say: 'See here, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took her king and her officials prisoner and brought them to himself in Babylon.

"What do you mean by quoting this proverb concerning the land of Israel, "'The fathers eat sour grapes And the children's teeth become numb?'

Then the people said to me, "Will you not tell us what these things you are doing mean for us?"

When your people say to you, 'Will you not tell us what these things mean?'

The ten horns mean that ten kings will arise from that kingdom. Another king will arise after them, but he will be different from the earlier ones. He will humiliate three kings.

But Mary treasured up all these words, pondering in her heart what they might mean.

What did he mean by saying, 'You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

All were astounded and greatly confused, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"

For you are bringing some surprising things to our ears, so we want to know what they mean."

Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," or "I am with Cephas," or "I am with Christ."

In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

No, I mean that what the pagans sacrifice is to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be partners with demons.

I do not mean yours but the other person's. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience?

I do not mean that we rule over your faith, but we are workers with you for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.

Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

Now if I am to go on living in the body, this will mean productive work for me, yet I don't know which I prefer: