What Does Jeremiah 32:14 Mean in the King James?

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase, both which is sealed, and this evidence which is open; and put them in an earthen vessel, that they may continue many days.

Jeremiah 32:14 · KJV

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THE KEY

The deed is stored so its claim can keep standing through long delay.

THE MEANING

Your visible circumstances do not erase what has been secured. The sealed and open deeds are placed where they can endure beyond the present moment. Their record continues to stand as the days pass.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the belief that a claim loses its force when time passes without visible fulfillment. Here, the evidence is preserved precisely because the days continue.

THE ROOT

יַעַמְדוּ

yaʿamdu

GROWS FROM

עמד

ʿ-m-d

To stand, take one’s position, or remain standing.

The verb translated “continue” comes from ⁨עָמַד⁩ (ʿāmad), “to stand.” The record does not merely survive in storage; its claim is pictured as still on its feet, retaining its place across many days.

ALSO GROWS

ʿāmad: To stand, remain, or take a stand.

עָמַד

It reveals the verse’s continuance as standing through time.

maʿamad: A standing place, position, or status.

מַעֲמָד

The word pictures a claim that retains its position as the days pass.

מִקְנָה

miqnah

GROWS FROM

קנה

q-n-h

To acquire, buy, or gain possession.

“purchase” in this verse is miqnah. ⁨מִקְנָה⁩ (miqnah) names an acquisition, from ⁨קָנָה⁩ (qanah), “to acquire.” The writing keeps what was acquired present as a claim, not merely as a memory of a transaction.

ALSO GROWS

qanah: To acquire, buy, or possess.

קָנָה

It shows that the evidence concerns something acquired and held.

qinyan: An acquisition or possession.

קִנְיָן

This branch echoes the deed’s role in preserving a claim to what was acquired.

THE PATTERN

A written witness keeps a claim available across the time between its declaration and its visible fulfillment.

And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Habakkuk 2:2 · KJVThe vision is made legible and carried forward by writing.

For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Romans 15:4 · KJVWritten words sustain hope in the present while time passes.

Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

2 Timothy 2:19 · KJVThe seal marks a foundation as standing sure, like the preserved deed keeps its claim intact.

THE THREAD

And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.

Genesis 23:20 · KJV

“For a possession” uses ⁨מִקְנָה⁩ (miqnah), from the same ⁨קנה⁩ (q-n-h) root as Jeremiah’s “purchase.” The shared root ties the written deed to an acquired claim that remains held across time.

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