Kataskenosis means “nest” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2682 — chatsir (“grass”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2682 κατασκήνωσις (kataskenosis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kataskenosis (kat-as-kay'-no-sis) n. 1. an encamping 2. (figuratively) a perch It has 6 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include nests. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kataskenosis (kat-as-kay'-no-sis) n. 1. an encamping 2. (figuratively) a perch [from G2681] KJV: nest Root(s): G2681
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2682. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
dwelling place
Usage: κατα-σκήνωσις, εως, ἡ [in LXX: 1Ch.28:2 (בָּנָה), Eze.37:27 (מִשְׁכָּן) Tob.1:4, Wis.9:8, 2Ma.14:35 (R)* ;] __1. prop., an encamping, taking up one's quarters (Polyb., al., see LS; and cf. LXX, ll. with). __2. a lodging, abode: of birds, Mat.8:20, Luk.9:58.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kataskenosis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2682 (κατασκήνωσις) appears 4 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And David stood in the midst of the assembly, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and a place for the feet of our Lord, and I prepared materials suitable for the building:
And my tabernacle shall be among them; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be my people.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
And when I was in mine own country, in the land of Israel, being but young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and, where the temple of the habitation of the most High was consecrated and built for all ages.
Thou hast commanded me to build a temple upon thy holy mount, And an altar in the city wherein thou dwellest, A resemblance of the holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning.
First 6 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2682.
And David stood in the midst of the assembly, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: it was in my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and a place for the feet of our Lord, and I prepared materials suitable for the building:
And my tabernacle shall be among them; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be my people.
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And when I was in mine own country, in the land of Israel, being but young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and, where the temple of the habitation of the most High was consecrated and built for all ages.
Thou hast commanded me to build a temple upon thy holy mount, And an altar in the city wherein thou dwellest, A resemblance of the holy tabernacle, which thou hast prepared from the beginning.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2682, grouped by book.
Kataskenosis (Strong's G2682) is a Greek word most simply glossed "nest". kataskenosis (kat-as-kay'-no-sis) n. 1. an encamping 2. (figuratively) a perch
This page currently indexes 6 linked usages for Strong's G2682 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2682 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as nests. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2682, with linked reader references where each row is available.