What Does Jeremiah 32:15 Mean in the King James?

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.

Jeremiah 32:15 · KJV

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This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The clearest sign that a place can live again is that someone can buy a future there.

THE MEANING

This verse meets the reader where ordinary life feels impossible and names its return: homes, working ground, and vineyards are again possible here. The promise reaches into material life, the ability to inhabit, cultivate, and invest in a place where life seemed interrupted.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that a place emptied by loss is permanently unusable for ordinary life.

THE ROOT

יִקָּנוּ

yiqqānû

GROWS FROM

קנה

To acquire or buy; in some contexts, to get or produce.

Under “possessed again” is the verb of acquiring or buying. The same root can describe getting a child, so the return of houses and vineyards carries the language of life taking hold again.

ALSO GROWS

qānâ: To acquire, buy, or gain possession.

קָנָה

This is the verb behind the promise: homes, fields, and vineyards become something people can acquire again in this land.

qānîtî: I have gotten or acquired.

קָנִיתִי

Eve uses this form when she speaks of having gotten a son (Genesis 4:1), showing the root reaching beyond property to the language of receiving life.

qōnēh: One who acquires; a possessor.

קֹנֵה

This form describes a possessor in Genesis 14:19, echoing the verse’s language of land held as a real, inhabited place.

THE PATTERN

The promised future takes shape as people again inhabit, cultivate, and inherit the earth.

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

Isaiah 65:21 · KJVThe promise becomes visible in people inhabiting homes and eating fruit from vineyards they plant.

And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

Amos 9:14 · KJVReturn unfolds through rebuilt towns, inhabited homes, vineyards, and gardens.

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Matthew 5:5 · KJVThe earth itself remains part of the promise, received as an inheritance.

THE THREAD

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Genesis 4:1 · KJV

Genesis uses ⁨קָנִיתִי⁩ (qānîtî, “I have gotten or acquired”) when Eve speaks of receiving a son; it is the same ⁨קנה⁩ (qanah, “acquire or get”) root behind “possessed again.” The root links securing a place to the language of life received, making the restored house and vineyard signs of life taking hold again.

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