21 Bible Verses about Meaning

The people said to me, “Will you not tell us what these things that you are doing mean for us?”

Let this be a sign among you, so that when your children ask later, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

He said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’

For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.”

“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Say, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes and brought them to him in Babylon.

When the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?’

“When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’

And he said, “What do you mean by all this company which I have met?” And he said, “To find favor in the sight of my lord.”

When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” Then they understood that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp.

When Eli heard the noise of the outcry, he said, “What does the noise of this commotion mean?” Then the man came hurriedly and told Eli.

“Then I desired to know the exact meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful, with its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, and which devoured, crushed and trampled down the remainder with its feet,

His disciples began questioning Him as to what this parable meant.

What is this statement that He said, ‘You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

So they were saying, “What is this that He says, ‘A little while’? We do not know what He is talking about.”

And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

Now in Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (which translated in Greek is called Dorcas); this woman was abounding with deeds of kindness and charity which she continually did.

But Elymas the magician (for so his name is translated) was opposing them, seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith.

There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.

If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me.