Reference: Nest
Hastings
Used literally of birds' nests (De 22:6; 32:11; Job 39:27; Ps 84:3; 104:17; Pr 27:8; Isa 16:2); metaphorically for a lofty fortress (Nu 24:21; Jer 49:16; Ob 1:4; Hab 2:9); Job refers to his lost home as a nest (Job 29:18); in Ge 6:14 the 'rooms' of the ark are (see mg.) literally 'nests' (qinn
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Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.
And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said, "Enduring is your dwelling place, and your nest is set in the rock.
"If you come across a bird's nest in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs and the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions,
Then I thought, 'I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand,
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes his nest on high?
Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, at your altars, O LORD of hosts, my King and my God.
In them the birds build their nests; the stork has her home in the fir trees.
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who strays from his home.
Like fleeing birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon.
The horror you inspire has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, you who live in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle's, I will bring you down from there, declares the LORD.
Though you soar aloft like the eagle, though your nest is set among the stars, from there I will bring you down, declares the LORD.
"Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm!
And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."
And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head."