קָנַןqânan

Pi`el: make a nest, nest (Isaiah 34:15; Ezekiel 31:6; Psalms 104:17)

Pronunciation: kaw-nan' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7077

Meanings

Pu`al: who art nested (Jeremiah 22:23)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Psalms 104:17 There the birds make their nests, and the storks make their homes in the cypresses.
  • Isaiah 34:15 There the owl will make her nest and lay her eggs. She will hatch her young and cover them with her wings. And the buzzards will come, each one with its mate.
  • Jeremiah 22:23 It may be nice to live in a beautiful palace paneled with wood from the cedars of Lebanon, but soon you will groan with pangs of anguish— anguish like that of a woman in labor.
  • Jeremiah 48:28 “You people of Moab, flee from your towns and live in the caves. Hide like doves that nest in the clefts of the rocks.
  • Ezekiel 31:6 The birds nested in its branches, and in its shade all the wild animals gave birth. All the great nations of the world lived in its shadow.

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).