קָנַן
kanan · nest
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7077 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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kanan (קָנַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “nest”.
To make a nest, to nest. It comes from the Hebrew word for "nest".
How to say it
ka·nan
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Build a home of twigs, as a bird.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- nests ×2
- nested ×1
- who nest ×1
- will nest ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 104:17
where the birds make their nests; the stork, the cypresses are her house.
- Isaiah 34:15
There the snake will nest and lay eggs and hatch them and gather them in its shadow; yes, there the harriers will gather, each one with its mate.
- Jeremiah 22:23
You who dwell in Lebanon, who nest in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs come upon you, anguish as of a woman giving birth!
- Jeremiah 48:28
Leave the cities and dwell in the rock, inhabitants of Moab! And be like the dove that nests on the sides of the mouth of the pit.
- Ezekiel 31:6
In its boughs all the birds of the heavens nested, and under its foliage all the animals of the field gave birth, and in its shade all the many nations lived.