Numbers 24:21
And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
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Habakkuk 2:9
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
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3 occurrences in 3 verses.
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קֵן
qên · kane
12 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
a nest (as fixed), sometimes including the nestlings; figuratively, a chamber or dwelling
Strong's KJV usage: nest, room.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Numbers 24:21Strong's last: Habakkuk 2:9
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qânan · kaw-nan'
3 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to nestle, i.e. build or occupy as a nest
Strong's KJV usage: make...nest.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 34:15Strong's last: Jeremiah 48:28
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H7064
Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
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nest
NEST, noun
1. The place or bed formed or used by a bird for incubation or the mansion of her young, until they are able to fly. The word is used also for the bed in which certain insects deposit their eggs.
2. Any place where irrational animals are produced.
3. An abode; a place of residence; a receptacle of numbers, or the collection itself; usually in an ill sense; as a nest of rogues.
4. A warm close place of abode; generally in contempt.
5. A number of boxes, cases or the like, inserted in each other.
NEST, verb intransitive To build and occupy a nest
The king of birds nested with its leaves.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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