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# קִנֵּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7077

**make a nest** — used 5 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

make a nest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7077/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִנֵּן: vb.denom. make nest, nest [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7077/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. make a nest, nest;—Pf. 3 fs. קִנְּנָה Is 34:15; 3 pl. קִנְנוּ Ez 31:6 (in fig.); Impf. 3 ms. יְקַנֵּנ֑וּ ψ 104:17; 3 fs. תְּקַנֵּן Je 48:28 (sim.). Pt. fs. מקננתי (Ges§ 90 1) Je 22:23 Kt (Qr מְקֻנַּנְתְּ; cf. Ges§ 80 d) (thou) who art nested in the cedars (fig.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: O \[you who are\] nested (1); \[which\] it makes a nest (1); it will make a nest (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 104:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.17/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֭ם צִפֳּרִ֣ים יְקַנֵּ֑נוּ חֲ֝סִידָ֗ה בְּרוֹשִׁ֥ים בֵּיתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* where there birds they.make.nests \[the\].stork \[is\].fir.trees home its

*JPS 1917:* Wherein the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.

[Jeremiah 48:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.28/#tree)

עִזְב֤וּ עָרִים֙ וְשִׁכְנ֣וּ בַּסֶּ֔לַע יֹשְׁבֵ֖י מוֹאָ֑ב וִֽהְי֣וּ כְיוֹנָ֔ה תְּקַנֵּ֖ן בְּעֶבְרֵ֥י פִי־פָֽחַת׃

*Word for word:* abandon cities and dwell among the rock\[s\] O.inhabitants of.Moab and be like a.dove \[which\].it.makes.a.nest on.\[the\] sides of.\[the\].mouth of.a.pit

*JPS 1917:* O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock; and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the pit's mouth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7077.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7077/): 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).