Lexicon chaspas: scale-like Original Word: מְחֻסְפָּסPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: chaspas Phonetic Spelling: (khas-pas') Short Definition: thing NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom an unused word Definitionscale-like NASB Translationflake-like thing (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ חַסְמַּס] verb only Passive participle ( scaled off) scale-like (apparent reduplication from * חסף for חספסף, see Ew § 158 c Ol §§ 214, 276 Ges § 55, 6 Sta § 291; Kö i, 250 thinks euphon. for מְחֻסְמָּף; to be compare are Arabic  , have scab, itch (Frey; but  = ס ?); Aramaic חַסְמָּא potsherd, חַסְמְּנִיתָא scale (of fish), scurf; Ethiopic  scabiosus fuit Di 587 and Exodus 16:14) — hence מְחֻסְמָּס scaled off, scale-like as Syrver ᵑ7 Thes Rob-Ges MV SS VB; — of the manna דַּק מְחֻסְמָּ֔ס דַּק כַּכְּפֹר Exodus 16:14 a fine, scale-like thing, fine as the hoar-frost. Strong's round thing Reduplicated from an unused root meaning apparently to peel; a shred or scale -- round thing. |
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