קשקשת

A reduplication of the otherwise unused root קָשַׂשׂ (kasás, “peel, shale off”).

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /kasˈkeset/

קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת • (kaskéset) f (plural indefinite קַשְֹקַשִֹּים or קַשְׂקְשׂוֹת, singular construct קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת־, plural construct קַשְׂקַשֵּׂי־)

1. (collective) scales (of fish or of a coat of mail)
   • Tanach, Leviticus 11:9, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     אֶת־זֶה תֹּאכְלוּ מִכֹּל אֲשֶׁר בַּמָּיִם כֹּל אֲשֶׁר־לוֹ סְנַפִּיר וְקַשְׂקֶשֶׂת בַּמַּיִם בַּיַּמִּים וּבַנְּחָלִים אֹתָם תֹּאכֵלוּ׃

     These may 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 may ye eat.

   • a. 217 C.E., Mishnah. Niddah, section 6.9:

     כֹּל שֶׁיֶּשׁ לוֹ קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת ,יֶשׁ לוֹ סְנַפִּיר. וְיֵשׁ שֶׁיֶּשׁ לוֹ סְנַפִּיר וְאֵין לוֹ ׳׳׳קַשְׂקֵשֶׂת.

     Any [fish] that has scales has fins; and there are [fish] that have fins but do not have scales.

   • Tanach, 1 Samuel 17:5a, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     וְכוֹבַע נְחֹשֶׁת עַל־רֹאשׁוֹ וְשִׁרְיוֹן קַשְׂקַשִּׂים הוּא לָבוּשׁ

     He had a bronze helmet on his head, and wore a breastplate of scale armor

• קַשְׂקַשִּׂי (kaskasí)
• מְקֻשְׂקָשׂ (m'kuskás)

קַשְׁקֶשֶׁת • (kashkéshet) f (no plural forms)

1. (colloquial) chatter, gibberish

   חדל קשקשת ברשת! ― khadál kashkéshet baréshet! ― Cease chatter on the channel!

• H7193 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Klein, Ernest (1987) “קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 599a
• Jastrow, Marcus (1903) A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[2], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons, page 1432a
• “קשקשת” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

• קשקשת on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he