2636. chaspas
Strong's Concordance
chaspas: scale-like
Original Word: מְחֻסְפָּס
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: chaspas
Phonetic Spelling: (khas-pas')
Short Definition: thing
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; Köi, 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 Di587 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 Exhaustive Concordance
round thing

Reduplicated from an unused root meaning apparently to peel; a shred or scale -- round thing.

Forms and Transliterations
מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס מחספס mə·ḥus·pās mechusPas məḥuspās
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Strong's Hebrew 2636
1 Occurrence


mə·ḥus·pās — 1 Occ.

Exodus 16:14
HEB: הַמִּדְבָּר֙ דַּ֣ק מְחֻסְפָּ֔ס דַּ֥ק כַּכְּפֹ֖ר
NAS: there was a fine flake-like thing, fine
KJV: [there lay] a small round thing, [as] small
INT: of the wilderness A fine flake-like fine as the frost

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