Strong's Hebrew: 7192. קְשִׂיטָה (qesitah) -- (unit of value), perhaps piece

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Lexicon

qesitah: (unit of value), perhaps piece

Original Word: קְשִׂיטָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: qesitah
Phonetic Spelling: (kes-ee-taw')
Short Definition: money

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
(unit of value), perhaps piece
NASB Translation
piece of money (1), pieces of money (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

קְשִׂיטָה noun feminine unit of (unknown) value, perhaps weight: Genesis 33:19 "" Joshua 24:32 (both E), Job 42:11.

קשׂשׂ (√ of following; Late Hebrew קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת scale; compare Arabic skim off fat, IV. scale off (Berggren), be healed form small-pox, etc. (Muƒi‰; i.e. scale off), compare get well from leanness, Frey (†am Golius); also sweep (up débris) Dozy^{ii. 347}).

Strong's

piece of money silver

From an unused root (probably meaning to weigh out); an ingot (as definitely estimated and stamped for a coin) -- piece of money (silver).