Nest (Hastings' Dictionary)

The receptacle constructed by a bird in which to lay its eggs and rear its young (Dt 22°32"). Swallows make their nest in the Lord’s house (?Ps 84°) ; eagles, on in- accessible pinnacles of the rocks (Job 3957, Hence a secure fortification, 866: in the mountains, is called a nest (Nu 24%, Jer 4916, Οὐ 4, Hab 2%), Many birds return, from year to year, to the same nest, and do not wander in search of another (Pr 275) ; a forsaken nest is a special type of desolation (Is 162m).

A quiet, ass , permanent home is called a nest (Job 29%). The zippér makes its nest in the cedars, and the stork her house (nest) in the fir trees (Ps 104”). Hence the ‘inhabitress (Jer 22%) of Lebanon’ is said to make her ‘ nest in the cedars,’ and ‘all the fowls of heaven made their nests’ in the boughs of the emblematic Assyrian cedar tree(Ezk31°), i.e. all nations were under Assyr. protection. The art with which birds conceal their nests is alluded to (Is 1015).

Owls choose ruins (Is 341°); doves, holes of the rock (Jer 48%). The ‘rooms’ in the ark are called kinnim, ‘nests’ (Gn 64m), perhaps in allusion to the nests of gregarious birds, as martens, rock pigeons, ete. The nests of the NT (Mt 8”, Lk 9°) are not νοσσιαί but κατασκηνώσεις =‘ resting pisces, or ‘roosting perches.’ This makes the Saviour’s comparison more forcible. He has not merely no home, but not even a cave like a fox, or a lodging place like a bird.

With this corresponds the verb κατα- σκηνόω, Which is tr? (Mt 1383, Mk 482, Lk 1319) ‘lodge,’ and (Ac 2”) quoted from Ps 16°, where the Heb. is av: yishkén (LXX κατασκηνώσει), ‘rest.’ The word means camping or bivouacking, not residing. G. E. Post.