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title: קִנֵּן — make a nest · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קִנֵּן (7077), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: make a nest. BDB 1906: vb.denom. make nest, nest. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קִנֵּן

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«קִנֵּן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **make a 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:** 5 times · **Key:** 7077 · **BDB:** קִנֵּן

### Glosses

O.\[you.who.are\].nested (1); \[which\].it.makes.a.nest (1); it.will.make.a.nest (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

make a nest [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7077/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb.denom. make nest, nest [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7077/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. make a nest, nest;—Pf. 3 fs. קִנְּנָה Is 34:15; 3 pl. קִנְנוּ Ez 31:6 (in fig.); Impf. 3 ms. יְקַנֵּנ֑וּ ψ 104:17; 3 fs. תְּקַנֵּן Je 48:28 (sim.). Pt. fs. מקננתי (Ges§ 90 1) Je 22:23 Kt (Qr מְקֻנַּנְתְּ; cf. Ges§ 80 d) (thou) who art nested in the cedars (fig.).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קִנֵּן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7077/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 104:17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.104.17/)

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אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֭ם צִפֳּרִ֣ים יְקַנֵּ֑נוּ חֲ֝סִידָ֗ה בְּרוֹשִׁ֥ים בֵּיתָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* where there birds they.make.nests \[the\].stork \[is\].fir.trees home its

*JPS 1917:* Wherein the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.

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[Jeremiah 48:28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.48.28/)

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עִזְב֤וּ עָרִים֙ וְשִׁכְנ֣וּ בַּסֶּ֔לַע יֹשְׁבֵ֖י מוֹאָ֑ב וִֽהְי֣וּ כְיוֹנָ֔ה תְּקַנֵּ֖ן בְּעֶבְרֵ֥י פִי־פָֽחַת׃

*Word for word:* abandon cities and dwell among the rock\[s\] O.inhabitants of.Moab and be like a.dove \[which\].it.makes.a.nest on.\[the\] sides of.\[the\].mouth of.a.pit

*JPS 1917:* O 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 pit's mouth.

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