Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #7192 - קְשִׂיטָה qesitah ((unit of value))

Original Word:	קְשִׂיטָה
Transliteration:	qesitah
Definition:	(unit of value), perhaps piece
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(kes-ee-taw')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

piece of money silver

From an unused root (probably meaning to weigh out); an ingot (as definitely estimated and stamped for a coin) -- piece of money (silver).

Englishman's Concordance

1) a unit of unknown value
1a) perhaps weight, money
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root (probably meaning to weigh out)
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2081a

Brown-Driver-Briggs

קְשִׂיטָהnoun feminine unit of (unknown) value, perhaps weight: Genesis 33:19 "" Joshua 24:32 (both E), Job 42:11.

קשׂשׂ (√ of following; Late Hebrew קַשְׂקֶשֶׂתscale; compare Arabic skim off fat, IV. scale off (Berggren), be healed form small-pox, etc. (Muƒi‰; i.e. scale off), compare get well from leanness, Frey (†am Golius); also sweep (up débris) Dozy^{ii. 347}).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 7192. קְשִׂיטָה (qesitah) — 3 Occurrences

Genesis 33:19
HEB:שְׁכֶ֑ם בְּמֵאָ֖ה קְשִׂיטָֽה׃
NAS: for one hundred pieces of money.
KJV: for an hundred pieces of money.
INT: Shechem's hundred pieces

Joshua 24:32
HEB:שְׁכֶ֖ם בְּמֵאָ֣ה קְשִׂיטָ֑ה וַיִּֽהְי֥וּ לִבְנֵֽי־
NAS: for one hundred pieces of money; and they became
KJV: for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance
INT: of Shechem hundred pieces became sons

Job 42:11
HEB:ל֗וֹ אִ֚ישׁ קְשִׂיטָ֣ה אֶחָ֔ת וְאִ֕ישׁ
NAS: him one piece of money, and each
KJV: him a piece of money, and every one
INT: gave and each piece one one

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