קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂת
scale
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 5 times (63%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct 2 times (25%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H7193 appears — 7 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus 3 verses
- Leviticus 11:9 וְ/קַשְׂקֶ֜שֶׂת conj + n c fs These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, that you may eat.
- Leviticus 11:10 וְ/קַשְׂקֶ֗שֶׂת conj + n c fs All that don't have fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of all the living creatures that are in the waters, they are an abomination to you,
- Leviticus 11:12 וְ/קַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂת conj + n c fs Whatever has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is an abomination to you.
Deuteronomy 2 verses
1 Samuel 1 verse
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, קשקשת (qasqeseth) means “scale.” It first appears in Leviticus 11:9. It turns up in 7 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Leviticus (43%), then Deuteronomy and 1 Samuel. Dig into 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7193 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Leviticus 3 verses 43%
- Deuteronomy 2 verses 29%
- 1 Samuel 1 verse 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 71%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 29%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Scales 7×
- American Standard Version: Scales 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Scales 6×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Scales 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7193 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7193 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7193 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7193 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- scale (of fish, water animals)
Word origin
קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂת n.f. scale of fish, etc.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: by reduplication from an unused root meaning to shale off as bark
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת
- [incision,] rough skin, coat of scales. Ḥull. III, 7. Nidd. VI, 9; Ḥull. 66ᵇ, v. סְנַפִּיר. Ib. 27ᵇ עופות … ק׳ ברגליהן וכ׳ fowls have on their feet a scaly skin like fishes, v. חַסְפְּנִיתָא. Ib. 66ᵇ הוה אמינא מאי ק׳ סנפיר I might have thought ḳasḳeseth (rough skin) refers to fins. Ib. וממאי דק׳ לבושא הוא (Ms. R. 2 קלפי נינהו) and whence do we learn that ḳ. means a covering (scales)? (Answ. ref. to I Sam. XVII, 5); a. fr.—Sifra Sh’mini, Sh’ratsim, ch. IV, Par. 3 ק׳ אחת one set of scales.—Pl. קַשְׂקַשִּׂים, קַשְׂקַשִּׂין. Ib. המרבה בק׳ וכ׳, v. סְנַפִּיר. Ib. (ref. to אפיקי מגנים, Job XLI, 7) אלו ק׳ that means scales; Ḥull. 67ᵇ. Ib. III, 7 ואלו הן ק׳ הקבועין בו וכ׳ by ḳaskassin we mean those which are inflexible, by s’nappirin those with which the fish moves.—Tosef. Ohol. XVII, 3 שדה ק׳ (ed. Zuck. a. R. S. to Ohol. XVII, 1 קַסְקַסִּים) a field full of scales (where all sorts of refuse are deposited). e.g. 1 Samuel 17:5
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H7193 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/קַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 14:9 | 3 |
| בְּ/קַשְׂקְשֹׂתֶ֑י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 29:4 | 1 |
| בְּ/קַשְׂקְשֹׂתֶ֖י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct | Ezekiel 29:4 | 1 |
| וְ/קַשְׂקֶ֗שֶׂת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:10 | 1 |
| וְ/קַשְׂקֶ֜שֶׂת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 11:9 | 1 |
| קַשְׂקַשִּׂ֖ים | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:5 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
