Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6945
קָדֵשׁ
qadeshkaw-dashe'
male cult prostitute
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: qâdêsh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6945is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6945
a (quasi) sacred person, i.e. (technically) a (male) devotee (by prostitution) to licentious idolatry
The King James renders it: sodomite, unclean.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
qadesh is rendered "male cult prostitute". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in 1 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 23:17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
Deuteronomy 23:17קָדֵ֖שׁ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's six uses are in 1 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the male cult prostitutes2
- a male cult prostitute1
- among the temple prostitutes1
- cult prostitute1
- the cult prostitute1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- קָדֵ֖שׁ2
- בַּקְּדֵשִֽׁים׃1
- הַקָּדֵ֔שׁ1
- הַקְּדֵשִׁ֖ים1
- הַקְּדֵשִׁ֔ים1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular2HAamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine plural2HTd/Aampa
- preposition with the article + adjective · masculine plural1HRd/Aampa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HTd/Aamsa
Deuteronomy
one use
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
- קָדֵ֖שׁkadeshadjective · masculine singulartagged: a male cult prostitute
1 Kings
three uses
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.
- קָדֵ֖שׁkadeshadjective · masculine singulartagged: cult prostitute
He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- הַקְּדֵשִׁ֖יםhakedeshimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the male cult prostitutes
He banished from the land the male shrine prostitutes who remained from the days of his father Asa.
- הַקָּדֵ֔שׁhakadeshthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the cult prostitute
2 Kings
one use
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.
- הַקְּדֵשִׁ֔יםhakedeshimthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: the male cult prostitutes
Job
one use
They die in their youth, among the male shrine prostitutes.
- בַּקְּדֵשִֽׁים׃bakedeshimpreposition with the article + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: among the temple prostitutes
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.