קִנֵּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7077

make a nest — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

make a nest tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קִנֵּן: vb.denom. make nest, nest tree →

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.).

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)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: O [you who are] nested (1); [which] it makes a nest (1); it will make a nest (1).

In the verses

Psalms 104:17 · tree →

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.

Jeremiah 48:28 · tree →

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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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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