• קְשִׂיטָה S 7192 TWOT 2081a GK 7988 n.f. unit of (unknown) value, perhaps weight: Gn 33:19 || Jos 24:32 (both E ), Jb 42:11 .

קשׂשׂ TWOT 2082 ( ^√ of following; NH קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת scale; cf. Arabic قَشَّ ( qašša ) skim off fat , IV . scale off (Berggren), اقش ( ˒qš ) 2, etc. ( Muḥiṭ ; i.e. scale off), cf. قَشَّ ( qašša ) get well from leanness, Frey ( Ḳam Golius); also sweep (up débris) Dozy ^{ii. 347}) .

• קַשְׂקֶ˜שֶׂת S 7193 TWOT 2082a GK 7989 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).

קַשׁ S 7179 TWOT 2091a GK 7990 v. קשׁשׁ ^.

קשׁא TWOT 2083 ( ^√ of foll.; cf. Arabic قِثُّﺁءٌ ^{(qiṯṯu˒ā˒un}), Ethiopic ˜˜˜˜ ( qʷəsayāt ) NH קִשּׁוּת , Pun. κισσον Löw ^{p. 408}, all cucumber ( s ) ( Löw ^{p. 330}), so prob. Assyrian ḳiššû ; cf. Syriac ܩܰܛܽܘܬܳܐ ( qaṭuto ) id. (Lexx), å ^{Jer 1.} Nu 11:5 pl. קַטַּיָּיא ( ט for ת after ק ); Gk. σίκυος, σικύη Lag Arm. Stud. § 1975; M ^{ii. 356} Lewy ^Fremdw. 30

• [ קִשֻּׁאָה S 7180 TWOT 2083a GK 7991 , Löw p. 330 ] n.f. cucumber ;— pl.

קִשֻּׁאִים Nu 11: 5.

• I . מִקְשָׁה S 4749, 4750 TWOT 2083b, 2086b GK 5251, 5252 n.f. place, field, of cucumbers , Is 1:8 ; so Je 10:5 Gf Gie al. ( cf. Baruch 6:7 0).

Löw J. Löw, Aramäische Pflanzennamen . Lag Lag Arm. Stud. , or ^AS = Id., Armenische Studien M (in BAram. Appendix) K. Marti, Gram. d. bibl. Aram. Lewy H. Lewy, Semitische Fremdwörter im Griechischen . Gf K. H. Graf.

Gie F. Giessebrecht.

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