Scale
קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂתStrong’s H7193qasqeset (qas-qe-set)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qasqeset is the Hebrew word usually translated “scale”, “scales your” and “scales”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.”
Meaning
- Scale (of fish, water animals)
How it's translated
- and scale 5
- to scales your 2
- scales 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 3
- Deuteronomy 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Ezekiel 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 11:10And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
- Leviticus 11:12Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
- Deuteronomy 14:9These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:
- Deuteronomy 14:10And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.
- 1 Samuel 17:5And he had an helmet of brass upon his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
- Ezekiel 29:4But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
Hebrew dictionary
קַשְׂקֶ֫שֶׂת qasqeset · scale
scale (of fish, water animals)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “scale” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SCALE, noun
[Latin id. If the sense is to strip, it coincides with the Gr. to spoil.]
- The dish of a balance; and hence, the balance itself, or whole instrument; as, to turn the scale
- The sign of the balance or Libra, in the zodiac.
- The small shell or crust which composes a part of the covering of a fish; and hence, any thin layer or leaf exfoliated or separated; a thin lamin; as scales of iron or of bone.
- A ladder; series of steps; means of ascending. [Latin scala.]
All definitions and other forms of “scale”
- The art of storming a place by mounting the wall on ladders; an escalade, or scalade.
- A mathematical instrument of wood or metal, on which are marked line and figures for the purpose of measuring distances, extent or proportions; as a plain scale; a diagonal scale
- Regular gradation; a series rising by steps or degrees like those of a ladder.
- Any instrument, figure or scheme, graduated for the purpose of measuring extent or proportions as a map drawn by a scale of half an inch to a league.
- In music, a gamut; a diagram; or a series of lines and spaces rising one above another, on which notes are placed; or a scale consists of the regular gradations of sounds.
- Any thing graduated or marked with degrees at equal distances.
SCALE, verb transitive
- To climb, as by a ladder; to ascend by steps; and applied to the walls of a fortified place, to mount in assault or storm.
- [from scale a balance.] To measure; to compare; to weight.
- [from scale the covering of a fish.] to strip or clear of scales; as, to scale a fish.
- To take off in thin lamins or scales.
- To pare off a surface.
- In the north of England, to spread, as manure or loose substances; also, to disperse; to waste.
- In gunnery, to clean the inside of a cannon by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
SCALE, verb intransitive
To separate and come off in thin layers or lamins.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.