Lexicon qasqeseth: scale (of fish) Original Word: קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂתPart of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: qasqeseth Phonetic Spelling: (kas-keh'-seth) Short Definition: scales NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitionscale (of fish) NASB Translationscale-armor (1), scales (7).
Brown-Driver-Briggs קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂת noun feminine scale of fish, etc.; — of water-animals having ׳סְנַמִּיר וְק fin and scale Deuteronomy 14:9,10 = Leviticus 11:9,10,12; plural קַשְׂקַשִׂים, of scale-armour 1 Samuel 17:5; plural suffix קַשְׂקְשׂתֶיךָ Ezekiel 29:4 (twice in verse) (of Pharaoh under figure of crocodile). קַשׁ see קשׁשׁ. קשׁא (√ of following; compare Arabic  , Ethiopic  Late Hebrew קִשּׁוּת, Punic κισσου Löwp. 408, all cucumber (s) (Löwp. 330), so probably Assyrian ‡iššû; compare Syriac  id. (Lexicons), ᵑ7Jer i. Numbers 11:4 plural קַטַּיָּיא (ט for ת after ק); Greek σίκυος σικύη LagArm. Stud. § 1975; M ii. 356 LewyFremdw. 30).
Strong's mail, scale By reduplication from an unused root meaning to shale off as bark; a scale (of a fish); hence a coat of mail (as composed of or covered with jointed plates of metal) -- mail, scale. |
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