'Mean' in the Bible

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?