Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3704 - כֶּסֶת keseth (a band)

Original Word:	כֶּסֶת
Transliteration:	keseth
Definition:	a band, fillet
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(keh'-seth)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

pillow

From kacah; a cushion or pillow (as covering a seat or bed) -- pillow.

see HEBREW kacah

Englishman's Concordance

1) band, fillet, covered amulets, false phylacteries
1a) used by false prophetesses in Israel to support their demonic fortune-telling schemes
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H3680
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1009a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[כֶּ֫סֶת] noun feminineband, fillet (=charm or amulet according to Ehpraimitic source Syriac, φυλακτήρια according to ὁ Ἑβραῖος of Hexapl., compare RS^{JPh xiii, 286}; in Late Hebrew כסת usually=cushion, bolster, pillow), only plural מְתַמְּרוֺת כְּסָתוֺת עַלֿEzekiel 13:18 women sewing bands upon elbows; with suffix 2 feminine plural כִּסְתוֺתֵיכֶ֫נָהEzekiel 13:20.

כֶּסֶה see כֶּסֶא.

כִּסֵּה see כִּסֵּא.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3704. כְּסָתוֹת (keseth) — 2 Occurrences

Ezekiel 13:18
HEB:הוֹי֩ לִֽמְתַפְּר֨וֹת כְּסָת֜וֹת עַ֣ל ׀ כָּל־
NAS: to the women who sew [magic] bands on all
KJV: to the [women] that sew pillows to all armholes,
INT: Woe sew bands on all

Ezekiel 13:20
HEB:הִנְנִ֤י אֶל־ כִּסְּתוֹתֵיכֶ֙נָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר אַ֠תֵּנָה
NAS: I am against your [magic] bands by which
KJV: GOD; Behold, I [am] against your pillows, wherewith ye
INT: behold I am against your bands which ye

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