קֵןqên

nest

Pronunciation: kane · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7064

Meanings

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 13 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 6:14 “Build a large boat from cypress wood and waterproof it with tar, inside and out. Then construct decks and stalls throughout its interior.
  • Numbers 24:21 Then he looked over toward the Kenites and delivered this message: “Your home is secure; your nest is set in the rocks.
  • Deuteronomy 22:6 “If you happen to find a bird’s nest in a tree or on the ground, and there are young ones or eggs in it with the mother sitting in the nest, do not take the mother with the young.
  • Deuteronomy 32:11 Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he spread his wings to take them up and carried them safely on his pinions.
  • Job 29:18 “I thought, ‘Surely I will die surrounded by my family after a long, good life.
  • Job 39:27 Is it at your command that the eagle rises to the heights to make its nest?
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).