Strong's #7193: qasqeseth (pronounced kas-keh'-seth)

by reduplication from an unused root meaning to shale off as bark; a scale (of a fish); hence a coat of mail (as composed of or covered with jointed plates of metal):--mail, scale.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׂׂ

qaśqeśeth

1) scale (of fish, water animals)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: by reduplication from an unused root meaning to shale off as bark

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Leviticus 11:9: "that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas,"
Leviticus 11:10: "that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all"
Leviticus 11:12: "Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination"
Deuteronomy 14:9: "are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:"
Deuteronomy 14:10: "And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it"
1 Samuel 17:5: "and he was armed with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand"
Ezekiel 29:4: "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,"
Ezekiel 29:4: "and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales."