Word

קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת

qasqeseth · H7193 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences

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Meanings

scales

Small overlapping plates covering the body of a fish

Examples
Leviticus 11:9 ‘These you may eat, of whatever is in the water: everything that has fins and scales, in the water, in the seas, or in the rivers, you may eat.
Leviticus 11:10 ‘But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,
Leviticus 11:12 ‘Whatever in the water does not have fins and scales is detestable to you.
coat of mail

A kind of vest or shirt covering the upper part of the body and made of several hundred small bronze scales or platelets overlapping each other and sewn on a cloth or leather base; the scales were thin and about 11 by 6 centimeters; such armor was lighter than a solid metal breastplate and was also more flexible, giving greater maneuverability; used especially by soldiers who could not carry a shield but still needed protection in battle (for example, a chariot driver)

Examples
1 Samuel 17:5 And he had a bronze helmet on his head, and he wore scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ךָyour 2

What it is said to bePredicate

5 occurrences in 2 groups

אַיִןthere is no, not 3
וֹhim 2

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שִׁרְיוֹןbreastplate 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

λεπίς lepís · G3013 · flake, scale: Greek λεπίς renders Hebrew קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת in contexts denoting protective scale-like coverings (armor scales, fish scales), representing direct translation equivalence for this specialized lexical field.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Clothing001003001001002: This domain reflects the word's use for armor scales (as in a coat of mail, compare 1 Samuel 17:5); it is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which all concern fish scales.
Weapons001003001001020: This domain is not independently illustrated by the sampled citations, which all concern the dietary law distinguishing fish with fins and scales from those without (Leviticus 11:9-12; Deuteronomy 14:9-10).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7193. qasqeseth קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂת noun feminine scale of fish, etc.; — of water-animals…

H7193. qasqeseth
קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂת noun feminine scale of fish, etc.; — of water-animals having וְק ׳סְנַמִּיר fin and scale Deu 14:9-10, = Lev 11:9-10, Lev 11:12; plural קַשְׂקַשִׂים, of scale-armour 1Sa 17:5; plural suffix קַשְׂקְשׂתֶיךָ Eze 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. Num 11:4 plural קַטַּיָּיא (ט for ת after ק); Greek σίκυος σικύη LagArm. Stud. § 1975; M ii. 356 LewyFremdw. 30).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Clothing1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0