Hebrew verb · H7077
קָנַן
qanankaw-nan'
to make a nest
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qânan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7077is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7077
to nestle, i.e. build or occupy as anest
The King James renders it: make...nest.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
qanan is rendered "to make a nest". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Psalms 104:17where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
Psalms 104:17יְקַנֵּ֑נוּ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it makes a nest1
- it will make a nest1
- nested1
- they made nests1
- they make nests1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יְקַנֵּ֑נוּ1
- מְקֻנַּ֖נְתְּ1
- קִנְּנָ֤ה1
- קִֽנְנוּ֙1
- תְּקַנֵּ֖ן1
The grammar of each form
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpi3fs
- verb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1HVpi3mp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVpp3cp
- verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVpp3fs
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singular1HVPsfsa
Psalms
one use
where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
- יְקַנֵּ֑נוּyekanenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they make nests
Isaiah
one use
There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
- קִנְּנָ֤הkinenahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will make a nest
Jeremiah
two uses
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
- מְקֻנַּ֖נְתְּmekunantiverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: nested
Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
- תְּקַנֵּ֖ןtekanenverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it makes a nest
Ezekiel
one use
All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
- קִֽנְנוּ֙kinuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they made nests
The letters
Gematria 200· 850 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.