קֵן qen

Hebrew word for “nest” · Strong’s H7064 · used 13 times in 13 verses

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Meaning

1) nest; 1a) nest (of bird); 1b) cells (like nests in Noah's ark)

How it is translated

Glosses given for qen in context, with how often each is used:

• nest 11
• nests 1
• like nest 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Genesis 6 (1), Numbers 24 (1), Deuteronomy 22 (1), Deuteronomy 32 (1), Job 29 (1), Job 39 (1), Psalms 84 (1), Proverbs 27 (1), Isaiah 10 (1), Isaiah 16 (1)

Forms

• קנך 3
• קן 3
• קנו 3
• קנים 1
• קני 1
• קנה 1
• כקן 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with qen more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נֶשֶׁר nesher “eagle” 4
• נָדַד nadad “to wander” 3
• גָּבַהּ gavah “to exult” 3
• צִפּוֹר tsippor “bird” 3
• אֶפְרֹחַ ephroach “young” 2
• בֵּיצָה betsah “egg” 2
• סֶלַע sela “crag” 2
• מָרוֹם marom “height” 2
• כָּנָף kanaph “wing” 2
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 3
• עֵץ ets “tree” 2
• יָרַד yarad “to go down” 2

Key verses

The verses using qen that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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.
• Deuteronomy 22:6 — If a bird’s nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or…
• Deuteronomy 32:11 — As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
• Job 29:18 — Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
• Job 39:27 — Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
• Psalms 84:3 — 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.
• Proverbs 27:8 — As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
• Isaiah 10:14 — And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that…
• Isaiah 16:2 — For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
• Jeremiah 49:16 — Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though…
• Obadiah 1:4 — Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
• 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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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.