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title: קֵן — nest · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קֵן (7064), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: nest. BDB 1906: n.m. nest. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קֵן

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«קֵן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **nest** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** 7064 · **BDB:** קֵן²

### Glosses

nest (9); a.nest (3); nests (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

nest [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7064/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. nest [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7064/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dt 22:6 nest;—abs. ק׳ Is 10:14; +; cstr. קַן־ Dt 22:6; sf. קִנּוֹ 32:11; +, etc.; pl. קִנִּים Gn 6:14;— nest, of bird Dt 22:6 Jb 39:27; in sim. Is 10:14 Pr 27:8, of nestlings Dt 32:11 Is 16:2 (קֵן מְשֻׁלָּח֑), perhaps also עִם־נִּי Jb 29:18, but difficult, CheJQ July, 1897, 578 proposes זָקֵן or בִּזִקֻנַי (cf. 𝔊); nest on high, of rock-dwellings Nu 24:21 (JE) Je 49:16; Ob 4; fig. of Chaldeans’ secure abode Hb 2:9; temple as secure home for Isr. ψ 84:4 (fig. of swallow). cells, like nests, in Noah’s ark Gn 6:14 (P; read prob. קִנִּים קִנִּים, so Lag Ol BuUrg. 255 Di Holz Gunk).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קֵן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7064/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 39:27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.39.27/)

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אִם־עַל־פִּ֭יךָ יַגְבִּ֣יהַּ נָ֑שֶׁר וְ֝כִ֗י יָרִ֥ים קִנּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* or? on mouth your does.it.make.high.\[its.flight\] an.eagle and.(dm) that it.sets.on.high nest its

*JPS 1917:* Doth the vulture mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

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[Job 29:18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.18/)

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וָ֭אֹמַר עִם־קִנִּ֣י אֶגְוָ֑ע וְ֝כַח֗וֹל אַרְבֶּ֥ה יָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and I.said with nest my I.will.expire and like (the) sand I.will.increase days

*JPS 1917:* Then I said: 'I shall die with my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the phoenix;

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