קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂת
scale
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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).
1 distinct verse where H7193 appears in the Construct state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
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.
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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.
