about messges in microsoft sql express

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Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 6
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'contains'.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 8
Incorrect syntax near ')'.

i am getting error messages like this.
I want to know what this message really
mean i.e list of messages corresponding to numbers......The SQL engine uses only the error numbers internally. Those are what the engine know about, and are how it complains about "bad code" that it receives from the SQL client. The error message displayed below the Msg line contains a description of the error in the current locale (in this case, essentially a human language like English, Spanish, French, etc).

The process of getting the text description is simply a table lookup, there's no "magic" associated with it. The table of error messages changes constantly, usually with every service pack.

-PatP|||they are stored in sysmessages:

select * from sysmessages where error in (102,156)