H7193 - קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת (qasqeseth)

H7193 קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת (qasqeseth) kas-keh'-seth

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

scale

Strong's Definition

a scale (of a fish); hence a coat of mail (as composed of or covered with jointed plates of metal)

Derivation: by reduplication from an unused root meaning to shale off as bark;

KJV Usage: mail, scale.

TWOT Reference: 2082a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) scale (of fish, water animals)

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

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STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

scale (of fish, water animals)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת qaśqeśeth BDB Definition: 1) scale (of fish, water animals) Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: by reduplication from an unused root meaning to shale off as bark Same Word by TWOT Number: 2082a Total KJV Occurrences: 8

Bible Occurrences (7)

11:9 11:10 11:12

14:9 14:10

17:5

29:4

Leviticus 11:9

Of all [the creatures] that [live] in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams -, you may eat anything with fins and scales....

Leviticus 11:10

But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales....

Leviticus 11:12

Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable... to you.

Deuteronomy 14:9

Of all [the creatures] that [live] in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales...,

Deuteronomy 14:10

but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.

1 Samuel 17:5

and [he had] a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing... five thousand shekels,

Ezekiel 29:4

But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.