Qᵉsîyṭâh — H7192

Definition

feminine noun

an ingot (as definitely estimated and stamped for a coin)

1. a unit of unknown value
1. perhaps weight, money

Usually translated as

piece of money

Origin

from an unused root (probably meaning to weigh out)

Greek equivalents

• amnós (G286)

Occurrences

Qᵉsîyṭâh occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Joshua (1), Job (1)

• Genesis 33:19 — And he bought a parcel of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for an hundred pieces of money (קְשִׂיטָֽה).
• Joshua 24:32 — And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver (קְשִׂיטָ֑ה): and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
• Job 42:11 — Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money (קְשִׂיטָ֣ה), and every one an earring of gold.