קֵןqên
nest
Pronunciation: kane · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7064
Meanings
1. nest (Deuteronomy 22:6; Job 39:27; Isaiah 10:14)
2. cells (Genesis 6:14)
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?
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).