קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת qasqeseth

Hebrew · Strong's H7193 · pronounced kas-keh'-seth · used 8 times in 7 verses

Meaning

a scale (of a fish); hence a coat of mail (as composed of or covered with jointed plates of metal)

In the King James Version: mail, scale.

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

Leviticus 11:9 Of all the creatures that live in the water, whether in the seas or in the streams, you may eat anything with fins and scales.
Leviticus 11:10 But the following among all the teeming life and creatures in the water are detestable to you: everything in the seas or streams that does not have fins and scales.
Leviticus 11:12 Everything in the water that does not have fins and scales shall be detestable to you.
Deuteronomy 14:9 Of all the creatures that live in the water, you may eat anything with fins and scales,
Deuteronomy 14:10 but you may not eat anything that does not have fins and scales; it is unclean for you.
1 Samuel 17:5 and he had a bronze helmet on his head. He wore a bronze coat of mail weighing five thousand shekels,
Ezekiel 29:4 But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.