The number 14
Deliverance, salvation, Passover
Fourteen represents deliverance and salvation. The Passover lamb was slain on the 14th of Nisan. Matthew arranges Jesus' genealogy in three sets of fourteen generations. It is 2x7, doubling spiritual perfection.
In Hebrew and Greek
Hebrew
Arbaah asar (אַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר) - fourteen
Greek
Dekatessares (δεκατέσσαρες) - fourteen
First occurrence
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, an...
The pattern in Scripture
- Passover on 14th of Nisan
- 14 generations x 3 in Matthew 1
- 14th day of first month (Exod 12:6)
Key verses
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephai...
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and ...
These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the co...
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until...
14:14 verses
And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his ...
The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it up...
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among ...
And every raven after his kind,