◄ 6945. qadesh ►
Lexicon
qadesh: Temple prostitute, cult prostitute, male shrine prostitute

Original Word: קָדֵשׁ
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: qadesh
Pronunciation: kah-DAYSH
Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-dashe')
KJV: sodomite, unclean
NASB: temple prostitute, cult prostitute, cult prostitutes, male cult prostitutes, sodomites, temple prostitutes
Word Origin: [from H6942 (קָדַשׁ - consecrate)]

1. a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
sodomite, unclean

From qadash; a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry -- sodomite, unclean.

see HEBREW qadash

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from the same as qodesh
Definition
a temple prostitute
NASB Translation
cult prostitute (2), cult prostitutes (2), male cult prostitutes (2), sodomites (1), temple prostitute (3), temple prostitutes (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
I. קָדֵּשׁ noun masculine temple-prostitute (man) (compare RSProph. ii. N. 19, and see Assyrian Sub √); — ׳ק Deuteronomy 23:18; collective 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 22:47; plural קְדֵשִׁים 1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 23:7; Job 36:14; also feminine קְדֵשָׁה (woman) Deuteronomy 23:18; plural קְדֵשׁוֺת Hosea 4:14; = harlot, feminine singular Genesis 38:21 (twice in verse); Genesis 38:22 (J).

Forms and Transliterations
בַּקְּדֵשִֽׁים׃ בקדשים׃ הַקְּדֵשִׁ֔ים הַקְּדֵשִׁ֖ים הַקָּדֵ֔שׁ הקדש הקדשים קָדֵ֖שׁ קדש bakkedeShim baq·qə·ḏê·šîm baqqəḏêšîm hakkaDesh hakkedeShim haq·qā·ḏêš haq·qə·ḏê·šîm haqqāḏêš haqqəḏêšîm kaDesh qā·ḏêš qāḏêš
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Englishman's Concordance
Deuteronomy 23:17
HEB: וְלֹֽא־ יִהְיֶ֥ה קָדֵ֖שׁ מִבְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵל׃
NAS: of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, nor
KJV: of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons
INT: nor shall be a cult of the sons of Israel

1 Kings 14:24
HEB: וְגַם־ קָדֵ֖שׁ הָיָ֣ה בָאָ֑רֶץ
NAS: There were also male cult prostitutes in the land.
KJV: And there were also sodomites in the land:
INT: were also male become the land

1 Kings 15:12
HEB: וַיַּעֲבֵ֥ר הַקְּדֵשִׁ֖ים מִן־ הָאָ֑רֶץ
NAS: He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land
KJV: And he took away the sodomites out of the land,
INT: put the male from the land

1 Kings 22:46
HEB: וְיֶ֙תֶר֙ הַקָּדֵ֔שׁ אֲשֶׁ֣ר נִשְׁאַ֔ר
NAS: The remnant of the sodomites who
KJV: And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained
INT: the remnant of the sodomites who remained

2 Kings 23:7
HEB: אֶת־ בָּתֵּ֣י הַקְּדֵשִׁ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּבֵ֣ית
NAS: the houses of the [male] cult prostitutes which
KJV: the houses of the sodomites, that [were] by the house
INT: broke the houses of the cult which the house

Job 36:14
HEB: נַפְשָׁ֑ם וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗ם בַּקְּדֵשִֽׁים׃
NAS: And their life [perishes] among the cult prostitutes.
KJV: and their life [is] among the unclean.
INT: They and their life the cult

6 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 6945
6 Occurrences


baq·qə·ḏê·šîm — 1 Occ.
haq·qā·ḏêš — 1 Occ.
haq·qə·ḏê·šîm — 2 Occ.
qā·ḏêš — 2 Occ.

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