Lexical Summary qasqeseth: scale (of fish) Original Word: קַשְׂקֶשֶׂתTransliteration: qasqeseth Phonetic Spelling: (kas-keh'-seth) Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: scale (of fish) Meaning: a scale, a coat of mail Strong's Concordance 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. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7193. qasqeseth קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂת noun feminine scale of fish, etc.; — of water-animals having וְק ׳סְנַמִּיר 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). |
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