To make a nest
קִנֵּןStrong’s H7077qanan (qa-nan)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qanan is the Hebrew word usually translated “make nests”, “it will make a nest” and “nested”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.”
Meaning
- To make a nest(Piel) to make a nest · (Pual) to be nested
How it's translated
- they make nests 1
- it will make a nest 1
- nested 1
- it makes a nest 1
- they made nests 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 34:15There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
- Jeremiah 22:23O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
- Jeremiah 48:28O 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 hole’s mouth.
- Ezekiel 31:6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
Hebrew dictionary
קִנֵּן qanan · to make a nest
1) to make a nest 1a) (Piel) to make a nest 1b) (Pual) to be nested
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.