Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #6945 - קָדֵשׁ qadesh (a temple prostitute)

Original Word:	קָדֵשׁ
Transliteration:	qadesh
Definition:	a temple prostitute
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(kaw-dashe')
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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

Englishman's Concordance

1) male temple prostitute
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H6942
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1990c

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. קָדֵּשׁnoun masculinetemple-prostitute (man) (compare RS^{Proph. ii. N. 19, and} see Assyrian Sub √); — ׳קDeuteronomy 23:18; collective 1 Kings 14:24; 1 Kings 22:47; plural קְדֵשִׁים1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 23:7; Job 36:14; also feminine קְדֵשָׁה (woman) Deuteronomy 23:18; plural קְדֵשׁוֺתHosea 4:14;=harlot, feminine singular Genesis 38:21 (twice in verse); Genesis 38:22 (J).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 6945. קָדֵשׁ (qadesh) — 6 Occurrences

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

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