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NEST (qçn).—Used literally of birds’ nests (Deu_22:6; Deu_32:11, Job_39:27, Psa_84:3; Psa_104:17, Pro_27:8, Isa_16:2); metaphorically for a lofty fortress (Num_24:21, Jer_49:16, Oba_1:4, Hab_2:9); Job refers to his lost home as a nest (Job_29:18); in Gen_6:14 the ‘rooms’ of the ark are (see mg.) literally ‘nests’ (qinnîm). In Mat_8:20, Luk_9:58 our Lord contrasts His wandering, homeless life with that of the birds which have their ‘nests’ (kataskçnôseis, RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘lodging-places’).
E. W. G. Masterman.