ken · nest; room

What it means

ken (קֵן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “nest; room”.

Nest; also the rooms or compartments of the ark.

How to say it

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

1. The place where a bird lays its eggs and raises its young.
2. The rooms of Noah's ark.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• nest ×12
• compartments ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Obadiah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Genesis 6:14

  Make yourself an ark of gopher wood; with compartments you shall make the ark, and cover it inside and outside with pitch.

• Numbers 24:21

  And he saw the Kenites and took up his poem and said, “Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the crag;

• Deuteronomy 22:6

  If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest before you on the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young or eggs, and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

• Deuteronomy 32:11

  Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, he spread out his wings, took him, carried him on his pinions.

• Job 29:18

  And I said, ‘With my nest I will expire, and like the sand I will multiply my days.

• Job 39:27

  Or at your command does the eagle mount up, and is it that it sets on high its nest?

• Psalms 84:3

  Even the bird has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she has laid her young: your altars, YHWH Tsevaot, my king and my Elohim.

• Proverbs 27:8

  Like a bird that wanders from its nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.

• Isaiah 10:14

  And my hand has found, like a nest, the wealth of the peoples; and as one gathers abandoned eggs, all the earth I have gathered; and there was no one who moved a wing, or opened a mouth, or chirped.”

• Isaiah 16:2

  And it will be like a wandering bird, a nest cast out: the daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

• Jeremiah 49:16

  Your terror has deceived you, the insolence of your heart, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make high like the eagle your nest, from there I will bring you down, declares YHWH.

• Obadiah 1:4

  Though you soar high like the eagle, and though among the stars your nest is set, from there I will bring you down, declares YHWH.

• Habakkuk 2:9

  Woe to the one who gains evil gain for his house, to set on high his nest, to be delivered from the hand of evil!