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 an ark of cyprus timbers. You shall make rooms in the ark. And you shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.
And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable and said, Strong is your dwelling-place, and you put your nest in a rock.
If a bird's nest happens to be before you in the way 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.
As an eagle stirs up her nest, flutters over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them and bears them on her wing,
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days like the sand.
Even the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young, Your altars, O Jehovah of Hosts, my King and my God.
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.
For it shall be as a fleeing bird cast out of the nest, the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
Your dreadfulness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
Though you rise high like the eagle, and though you set your nest between the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.
Woe to him who robs evil booty for his house, to set his nest on high, to be delivered from the hand of evil!
And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the 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.