Numbers 24:21
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And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
In other translations
And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
Hebrew words
וַיַּרְאvaiyar'and he sawH7200אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853הַקֵּינִיhakeinithe Kenite[s]H7017וַיִּשָּׂאvaiyisa'and he lifted upH5375מְשָׁלוֹmeshalooracle hisH4912וַיֹּאמַרvaiyomarand he saidH559אֵיתָן'eitan[is] enduringH386מוֹשָׁבֶךָmoshavekhadwelling yourH4186וְשִׂיםvesimand [is] setH7760בַּסֶּלַעbasela'in the rockH5553קִנֶּךָ׃kinechanest yourH7064
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Related verses
- Genesis 15:19The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,
- Job 29:18Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
- Judges 1:16And the children of the Kenite, Moses’ father in law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt among the people.Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
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