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קֹדֶשׁ

qodesh

ko'-desh

Strong's 1890 spelling: qôdesh

a sacred place or thing

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity

Rendered in the KJV as

consecrated (thing), dedicated (thing), hallowed (thing), holiness, ([idiom] most) holy ([idiom] day, portion, thing), saint, sanctuary.

  • 469
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 29 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 133
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 469 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 133

  • הַקֹּ֑דֶשׁ34
  • קֹ֖דֶשׁ25
  • קֹ֥דֶשׁ22
  • קֹ֑דֶשׁ21
  • קֹ֣דֶשׁ20
  • הַקֹּ֔דֶשׁ19
  • הַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃16
  • הַקֹּ֖דֶשׁ13
  • הַקֹּ֙דֶשׁ֙13
  • קֹֽדֶשׁ׃11
  • קָדְשֽׁוֹ׃11
  • קֹ֙דֶשׁ֙10

and 121 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 86

  • the holy place61
  • holiness55
  • the holiness42
  • holiness his29
  • holiness my28
  • a holy thing27
  • the holy things21
  • holiness your20
  • in the holy place15
  • holy things14
  • the holy places11
  • [is] a holy thing of10

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 36

  • noun · masculine singular109
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular95
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)30
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular29
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular28
  • noun · masculine plural24
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural24
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular20
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular16
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular13
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)12
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural10
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 109
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 95
  • HNcmsc · 30
  • HNcmsc/Sp3ms · 29
  • HNcmsc/Sp1bs · 28
  • HNcmpa · 24
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 24
  • HNcmsc/Sp2ms · 20
  • HTd/Ntmsa · 16
  • HRd/Ntmsa · 13
  • HNcmpc · 12
  • HTd/Ntmpa · 10

All 469, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Leviticus carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Exodus70 occurrences
Leviticus92 occurrences
Numbers57 occurrences
Deuteronomy4 occurrences
Joshua2 occurrences
1 Samuel3 occurrences
1 Kings12 occurrences
2 Kings3 occurrences
1 Chronicles17 occurrences
2 Chronicles30 occurrences
Ezra6 occurrences
Nehemiah7 occurrences
Psalms45 occurrences
Proverbs1 occurrence
Isaiah23 occurrences
Jeremiah6 occurrences
Lamentations1 occurrence
Ezekiel57 occurrences
Daniel13 occurrences
Joel3 occurrences
Amos2 occurrences
Obadiah2 occurrences
Jonah2 occurrences
Micah1 occurrence
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Zephaniah2 occurrences
Haggai1 occurrence
Zechariah5 occurrences
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).