קָנַן qânan

Meaning

to nestle, i.e. build or occupy as anest

In the King James Version: make...nest.

Derivation: a primitive root; to erect; but used only as denominative from H7064 (קֵן);

Where it is used

• Psalms 104:17 where the birds build their nests; the stork makes her home in the cypresses.
• Isaiah 34:15 There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
• Jeremiah 22:23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a woman in labor.”
• Jeremiah 48:28 Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
• Ezekiel 31:6 All the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.