Lexical Definition

‎קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת‎ qasqeseth (kas-keh'-seth) scale ^H:N-F
by reduplication from an unused root meaning to shale off as bark

mail, scale.

• a scale (of a fish)
• hence a coat of mail (as composed of or covered with jointed plates of metal)

1) scale (of fish, water animals)

See Greek: λεπίς

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂת‎ noun feminine scale of fish, etc.; — of water-animals having ‎׳‎‎סְנַפִּיר וְק‎ fin and scale Deut 14:9; Deut 14:10 = Lev 11:9; Lev 11:10; Lev 11:12 plural ‎קַשְׂקַשִׂים‎, of scale-armour 1Sam 17:5 plural suffix ‎קַשְׂקְשׂתֶיךָ‎ Ezek 29:4 (twice in verse) (of Pharaoh under figure of crocodile). ‎קַשׁ‎ see ‎קשׁשׁ‎.

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