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# קֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7064

**nest** — used 13 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

nest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7064/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קֵן²: n.m. nest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7064/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dt 22:6 nest;—abs. ק׳ Is 10:14; +; cstr. קַן־ Dt 22:6; sf. קִנּוֹ 32:11; +, etc.; pl. קִנִּים Gn 6:14;— nest, of bird Dt 22:6 Jb 39:27; in sim. Is 10:14 Pr 27:8, of nestlings Dt 32:11 Is 16:2 (קֵן מְשֻׁלָּח֑), perhaps also עִם־נִּי Jb 29:18, but difficult, CheJQ July, 1897, 578 proposes זָקֵן or בִּזִקֻנַי (cf. 𝔊); nest on high, of rock-dwellings Nu 24:21 (JE) Je 49:16; Ob 4; fig. of Chaldeans’ secure abode Hb 2:9; temple as secure home for Isr. ψ 84:4 (fig. of swallow). cells, like nests, in Noah’s ark Gn 6:14 (P; read prob. קִנִּים קִנִּים, so Lag Ol BuUrg. 255 Di Holz Gunk).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: nest (9); a nest (3); nests (1).

## In the verses

[Job 39:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.27/#tree)

אִם־עַל־פִּ֭יךָ יַגְבִּ֣יהַּ נָ֑שֶׁר וְ֝כִ֗י יָרִ֥ים קִנּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* or? on mouth your does.it.make.high.\[its.flight\] an.eagle and.(dm) that it.sets.on.high nest its

*JPS 1917:* Doth the vulture mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

[Job 29:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.18/#tree)

וָ֭אֹמַר עִם־קִנִּ֣י אֶגְוָ֑ע וְ֝כַח֗וֹל אַרְבֶּ֥ה יָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and I.said with nest my I.will.expire and like (the) sand I.will.increase days

*JPS 1917:* Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7064.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7064/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).