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 thee an ark of gopher-wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
If a bird's nest shall chance to be before thee in the way on any tree, or on the ground, whether with young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:
As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings;
Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
Yes, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thy altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the hight of the hill: though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Though thou shalt exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou shalt set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
And Jesus saith to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.