Qadesh קָדֵשׁ
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| קָדֵשׁ | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | qadesh |
| Strong's number | H6945 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | male cult prostitute |
| Occurrences | 6 in 6 verses |
| Most frequent in | 1 Kings (3) |
Qadesh (Hebrew קָדֵשׁ, Strong's H6945) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “male cult prostitute”. It occurs 6 times in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
male temple prostitute
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | sodomites (4), sodomite (1), unclean (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | male shrine prostitutes (4), shrine prostitute (1), among the male shrine prostitutes (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Qadesh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 23:17There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 14:24And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 1 Kings 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 22:46And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 23:7And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.
Job
- Job 36:14They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).