קֵן

qên · Hebrew · Strong's H7064 · 13 occurrences

The KJV renders 3 different Hebrew and Greek words as “room”

What it means

a nest (as fixed), sometimes including the nestlings; figuratively, a chamber or dwelling

contracted from H7077 (קָנַן);

How the KJV renders it

nest, room

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“room”

also renders diádochos (G1240), tópos (G5117)

“nest”

also renders kataskḗnōsis (G2682)

Where it appears

13 occurrences in the Hebrew text.

Deuteronomy 22:6 · HNcmsc

If you come across a bird’s nest on the way, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the hen sitting on the young, or on the eggs, you shall not take the hen with the young.

Deuteronomy 32:11 · HNcmsc/Sp3ms

As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

Genesis 6:14 · HNcmpa

Make a ship of gopher wood. You shall make rooms in the ship, and shall seal it inside and outside with pitch.

Habakkuk 2:9 · HNcmsc/Sp3ms

Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

Isaiah 10:14 · HRd/Ncmsa

My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, I have gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped.”

Isaiah 16:2 · HNcmsa

For it will be that as wandering birds, as a scattered nest, so will the daughters of Moab be at the fords of the Arnon.

Jeremiah 49:16 HNcmsc/Sp2msJob 29:18 HNcmsc/Sp1csJob 39:27 HNcmsc/Sp3msNumbers 24:21 HNcmsc/Sp2msObadiah 1:4 HNcmsc/Sp2msProverbs 27:8 HNcmsc/Sp3fsPsalm 84:3 HNcmsa

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