Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7193
קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת
qasqesethkas-keh'-seth
scale
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7193is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7193
a scale (of a fish); hence a coat of mail (as composed of or covered with jointed plates of metal)
The King James renders it: mail, scale.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
qasqeseth is rendered "scale". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 11:9Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
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 11:9וְקַשְׂקֶ֜שֶׂת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and scale5
- to scales your2
- scales1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂת3
- בְּקַשְׂקְשֹׂתֶ֑יךָ1
- בְּקַשְׂקְשֹׂתֶ֖יךָ1
- וְקַשְׂקֶ֜שֶׂת1
- וְקַשְׂקֶ֗שֶׂת1
- קַשְׂקַשִּׂ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular5HC/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HR/Ncfpc/Sp2ms
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
Leviticus
three uses
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.
- וְקַשְׂקֶ֜שֶׂתvekaskesetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and scale
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.
- וְקַשְׂקֶ֗שֶׂתvekaskesetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and scale
Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.
- וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂתvekaskesetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and scale
Deuteronomy
two uses
Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,
- וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂתvekaskesetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and scale
but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
- וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂתvekaskesetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and scale
1 Samuel
one use
and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,
- קַשְׂקַשִּׂ֖יםkaskasimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: scales
Ezekiel
two uses
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.
- בְּקַשְׂקְשֹׂתֶ֑יךָbekaskesoteichapreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to scales your
- בְּקַשְׂקְשֹׂתֶ֖יךָbekaskesoteichapreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to scales your
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.