Nest
קֵןStrong’s H7064qen
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qen is the Hebrew word usually translated “nest your”, “nest its” and “nest”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
Meaning
- Nestnest (of bird) · cells (like nests in Noah's ark)
How it's translated
- nest your 3
- nest its 3
- a nest 2
- nests 1
- a nest of 1
- nest my 1
- like nest 1
- nest his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Job 2
- Isaiah 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- Psalms 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 24:21And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
- Deuteronomy 22:6If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
- Deuteronomy 32:11As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
- Job 29:18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
- Job 39:27Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
- Psalms 84:3Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
Hebrew dictionary
קֵן qen · nest
1) nest 1a) nest (of bird) 1b) cells (like nests in Noah's ark)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “nest” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NEST, noun
- The place or bed formed or used by a bird for incubation or the mansion of her young, until they are able to fly.
- Any place where irrational animals are produced.
- An abode; a place of residence; a receptacle of numbers, or the collection itself; usually in an ill sense; as a nest of rogues.
- A warm close place of abode; generally in contempt.
All definitions and other forms of “nest”
- A number of boxes, cases or the like, inserted in each other.
NEST, verb intransitive
To build and occupy a nest
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.