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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BUILD AN ARK of cypress wood (a resinous tree). Make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out.
And he looked at the Kenite and continued his discourse. He said: Your dwelling place is enduring and your nest is set in the cliff.
If you find a bird's nest near the road, in a tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs in it. The mother could be sitting on the young or on eggs. Do not take the mother with the young.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, spreads its wings to catch them, and carries them on its wings,
Then I thought: I shall die in my nest (house), and I shall multiply my days like the grains of sand.
Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?
Even small birds have built a nest, and the swallows have their own home. They keep their young near your altars O Jehovah my king and my God.
Where the birds build their nests, the stork, whose home is the fir tree.
As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his place.
Like fluttering birds pushed from the nest, so are the women of Moab at the fords of the Arnon River.
You have frightened other people. Your arrogance has deceived you. You live on rocky cliffs and occupy the highest places in the hills. Even though you build your nest as high as an eagle, I will bring you down from there, proclaims Jehovah.
Even though you place yourself as high as the eagle, and though you nest among the stars, I will bring you down from there, said Jehovah!
He who receives a dishonest profit for his house will have trouble. He may set his nest on high in order to be delivered from the hand of evil!
Jesus replied: Foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.
Jesus told him: Foxes have holes and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head.