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title: קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת — scale · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת (7193), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: scale. BDB 1906: n.f. scale. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת

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«קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת» in the Tanakh dictionary: **scale** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 7193 · **BDB:** קַשְׂקֶ֑שֶׂת

### Glosses

scale (5); scales (2); of.scales (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

scale [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7193/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. scale [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7193/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. scale of fish, etc.;—of water-animals having סְנַפִּיר וְק׳ fin and scale Dt 14:9, 10 = Lv 11:9, 10, 12; pl. קַשְׂקַשִּׂים, of scale-armour 1 S 17:5; pl. sf. קַשְׂקְשׂתֶיךָ Ez 29:4(×2) (of Pharaoh under fig. of crocodile).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7193/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Leviticus 11:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.11.12/)

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כֹּ֣ל אֲשֶׁ֥ר אֵֽין־ל֛וֹ סְנַפִּ֥יר וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂת בַּמָּ֑יִם שֶׁ֥קֶץ ה֖וּא לָכֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* all that there.\[belong\].not to it fin and scale in the waters \[is\].a.detestable.thing it to you

*JPS 1917:* Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.

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[Deuteronomy 14:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.14.10/)

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וְכֹ֨ל אֲשֶׁ֧ר אֵֽין־ל֛וֹ סְנַפִּ֥יר וְקַשְׂקֶ֖שֶׂת לֹ֣א תֹאכֵ֑לוּ טָמֵ֥א ה֖וּא לָכֶֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and all that there.\[belong\].not to it fin and scale not you.will.eat \[is\].unclean it to you

*JPS 1917:* and whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye shall not eat; it is unclean unto you.

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