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Strong's #7077: qanan (pronounced kaw-nan')

a primitive root; to erect; but used only as denominative from 7064; to nestle, i.e. build or occupy as a nest:-- make...nest.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qânan

1) to make a nest

1a) (Piel) to make a nest

1b) (Pual) to be nested

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

Psalms 104:17: "Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house."
Isaiah 34:15: "There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there"
Jeremiah 22:23: "O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come"
Jeremiah 48:28: "in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth."
Ezekiel 31:6: "All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all"









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